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Download Date 26/09/2021 11:26:36 "This is the final annual report of the Eastern Health Board. The EHB was dissolved on February 29, 2000 and replaced by three Area Health boards, the East Coast Area Health Board, the Northern Area Health Board and the South Western Area Health Board." [from front cover] Item Type Report Authors Eastern Health Board (EHB) Rights Eastern Health Board Download date 26/09/2021 11:26:36 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10147/46525 Find this and similar works at - http://www.lenus.ie/hse Annual Report 1999-2000 Eastern Health Board COMMUNITY CARE AREAS Dun Laoghaire 0 Dublrn South East Q Dublin South Central Q Dublrn South West 0 Dublrn West @ Dublin North West @ Dublin North Central 0 Dublin North @ Co. Kildare @ Co. Wicklow @ The Eastern Health Board provides health and social services for 1.3m people in Dublin, Annual Report 1999-2000 103544 CONTENTS Community Care Areas Charrman's Report Board Members Meetrngs Charrs and Programme Commrttees 1999-2000 Mission Statement Demographic Profile Management Team Chief Executive's Report Health Promotion I> Socral/Local Development Customer Servrces Department Chrldren and Famrlres Compaints and Appeals Service : Services for persons with Physical and Sensory Disabilities Services for Trauelle Women's Health Acute Hospitals Services ., *,. Ambulance Services Community Services Community Welfare Services General Practrce Unrt Dental Servrces Regrstratron of Brrths, Marrrages & Deaths Environmental Health Servrces Adult Mental Health Personnel Department Regional Library and Information Service Department of Publrc Health Management Services Technical Services Estate Management Communications Finance Regional Materials Management Subsidiary Companies Freedom of Information Annual Report 1999-2000 CHAIRMAN'S REPORT would like to thank my col- respite or leagues for honouring me by intermittent electing me as Chairman of the care, convales- Eastern Health Board in 1999 - cent or reha- my second term to hold this bilitation care, prestigious office. .. and long-syay My election was tinged with care. Other some sadness, knowing that with services the dissolution of the Eastern included reha- Health Board in February 2000, bilitation and I would be the last Chairman of an organisa- stroke services, tion which had served the people of Dublin, day centres Wicklow and Kildare so well for almost 30 and clubs, years. nutritional ser- However, I and my Fellow Board Members vice, comi- Ald. Ivor Callely TD.,Charrman of The Eastern Health Board have appreciated- - for some years that the pre- nence promo- sent organisational structures were no longer tion, suitable for the vastly increased population of ical services, support for carers, home improve- the Eastern region - which has increased by ment schemes, mobile day hospitals and subven- Y almost one-third since the establishment of the tion towards care in private nursing homes. EHB - and the scale and complexity of the Homeless people represent a very vulnerable issues with which the Board must now deal. section of our population, and sadly the period When I was elected I stated that the devel- saw a significant increase of 2,480 people and opment of services for older persons and the families applying to our Homeless Persons Unit disadvantaged, particularly the homeless, for the first tie. would be my priorities during my term of This is due to a number of factors, but it office. brings the total number of children and families I also stated that I would be concentrating receiving a service from our unit to approxi- on the expansion of services for persons with mately 5,000. disabilities, for children, for drug misusers and Expenditure on Services for Persons with an for marginalised groups as well as the develop- Intellectual Disability in the full year 1999 ment of the Board's acute hospitals. totalled £47.5m, of which £30.8m was allocat- The development of services for older per- ed to over 50 voluntary agencies providing ser- sons is particularly necessary, because there are vices throughout our Board's region. currently about 125,270 people aged 65 years This funding included £4.871111 in respect of and over, and 10,558 aged 85 and over living new services, which allowed us to provide 20 in our Board's area. It is estimated that by additional residential places, 66 additional day 2011 there will be 176,034 aged 65 and over places, 28 respite beds and 45 emergency resi- living here. dential places in 1999. Over the fourteen months covered by this The additional places helped to reduce the report, our Board developed a wide range of waiting lists for both day and residential care. services for older persons, both community There are now approximately 700 people with and residential or hospital-based. At commu- intellectual disability in residential accommoda- nity level, the services provided included gen- tion directly funded by our Board. era1 practitioner services, daycare, community During 1999, work began on a bungalow nursing and community paramedical services, complex at Oldtown, Co. Dublin, to replace and specialist services for elderly mentally unsuitable institutional buildings at St. Ita's infirm patients. At in-patient level, the range Hospital and this is due to be completed shortly. of services included assessment. welflre~ TI,* nrnnrlmmn LC D-- .--... .:*I- DL..-:--I Annual Report 1999-2000 and Sensory Disabilities received an additional Methadone maintenance treatment is now E3.152 million in funding . This enabled provided by General Practitioners in their own progress on a number of initiatives: new facili- surgeries, and in addiction centres, satellite ties were opened at the Irish Wheelchair clinics, mobile clinics and in specialist detoxi- Association in Clontarf, the Respite Centre in fication units. At the end of February 2000, Shillelagh and the Community Home for the there were 4,353 people from Dublin, Kildare Visually Impaired at Calderwood Rd., and Wicklow receiving drug treatment Drumcondra; and a number of new initiatives through our Board's services, compared with were agreed with the voluntary agencies to 426 in 1994 and 227 in 1992. support respite services. A Public Health The Acute Hospitals Service Programme, Specialist was also assigned to work with the which ensures that each of our Board's hospi- National Database Committee to begin com- tals fulfils its role as part of the network of piling a database on physical and sensory dis- ,,.. acute general hospitals and provides quality ability. care at the most appropriate level, faced a During the period a policy document on number of challenges. Recruitment proved standards and criteria for the Inspection of extremely difficult throughout the year. The Children's Residential Centres was jointly nurses' dispute resulted in pressure on the launched by our Board and the Western Health delivery of acute services, though the co-oper- Board, and a strategic plan for residential care ation of all staff ensured that disruption to ser- in the EHB region was launched. A number of vice was kept to manageable proportions. child health initiatives were launched, includ- I am very pleased with the progress which ing a teenage health initiative, which aims to our Board made in initiating and developing provide training in relationships and sexuality. health and personal social services in the A Mentoring Project aims to support young region and I would like to thank all my col- people at risk of early school leaving, while leagues on the Board for their hard work and plans are in train for the development of a commitment. Young Persons' Health Centre where the focus In spite of all the achievements, however, will be on the promotion of sexual health and there also a sense of loss because of the death the prevention of sexually transmitted disease. of Cyril Gallagher, former EHB chairman, and Key service developments for Children Out a member of the Board for eight years. It was of Home included the appointment of a rnan- a particularly sad event because Cyril's wife, ager to develop the Crisis Intervention Service. Anne, had only passed away six weeks previ- In addition, with EHB funding, the Salvation ously. This would have been a great blow to Army opened the Night Light, a night recep- Cyril after many happy years of marriage, and tion centre providing 6 overnight beds; Focus of course to their five children, Esther, Brigid, Ireland opened The Loft, a 7-day reception Bernie, Maria and Dessie, who were doubly centre; Focus Ireland also developed an after- bereaved by Cyril's death just a short time care transitional unit for girls, and the later. I would like to extend my deepest sym- Salvation Army developed after-care bed-sits pathies to them and his friends, and all who for young women leaving care; and Don Bosco miss him. It was a year in which we also lost developed sheltered flats for boys leaving care. another valued colleague, Cllr. Pat Upton, The Forum on Youth Homelessness was estab- T.D., who died at such a tragically young age. lished, bringing the voluntary and statutory Our sympathies go to his wife Anne and fam- sector together to prepare an agreed strategy ily. Ar dheis D6 go rabh a hAnamacha. on the problem. In conclusion, I would like to thank the The construction of a purpose-built Special CEO, Mr. Pat McLoughlin, the Management Care Unit at Ballydowd was progressed. A Team, and all the Board's staff, for the dedi- Director was appointed and the recruitment cated and progressive manner in which they process is under way. have implemented policies and decisions of the Drug misuse continued to present one of the Board. greatest challenges to our Board. Our strategy I would also like to thank the Minister for is to promote a drug free lifestyle, develop out- Health & Children, Mr.
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