Andy Phillips

Intent: To inform the development of Ireland's next National Cancer Strategy

Details: Organising an event to launch a Cancer Dashboard for Ireland

Intent: Awareness of priorities of the region ahead of AICIC26

Details: Assess laboratory priorites for South West

Intent: Strategic direction on the utilisation of the Care Village for patient care for this purpose.

Details: Discussion on strategic partnership of private healthcare and public health system in particular Bon Secours Care Village facilitating public patients with certain long term illnesses

Intent: Highlighting single adult homelessness.

Details: Attendence at Simon Week Cork

Intent: A greater understanding of the unique challenges facing single adult households experiencing homelessness in the Southwest.

Details: Various aspects relating to single adult homelessness, including extent of single adult homelessness in the Southwest, rough sleeping, homeless deaths in the Southwest, mental health and homelessness, and exclusion.

Intent: Correct Funding Model for Saint Lukes Cork. In the short term - include Saint Lukes Cork as an in scope organisation and to benefit from the March 2025 WRC pay agreement between Government and ICTU. Ultimately Saint Lukes should receive special status as a voluntary organisation as it continues to provide a significant array of services for the older people of Cork. It remains an existential crisis for us.

Details: A S39 not for profit organisation with voluntary and charitable status seeking appropriate funding to stem operating losses, achieve pay parity with our colleagues in the HSE through appropriate means ( NTPF or HSE or Legislation)

Intent: Engagement with the HSE

Details: INMO attempting to engage with HSE South West regarding media reports of new injuries unit, Killarney area

Intent: That the relevant person would attend the conference.

Details: Invitations to FASD in Ireland Conference

Intent: to highlight the social and commercial determinants of poor health and the need for cross departmental action on health inequalities::to highlight the relationship between access to pornography and sexual and gender-based violence and the need for legislation in this area. ::to highlight the current issues in relation to the Mental Health Bill 2024 and the involuntary admission and treatment of patients with severe mental illness

Details: Invitation to attend the IMO AGM 2025 educational sessions

Intent: To increase awareness of DFI, our role and purpose. Share data from the CSO on disability prevalence in their region. Profile DFI members in their region. And to raise topics of concern to our members to the REO - funding, capacity, and communication.

Details: HSE Restructuring - Health Regions and REOs