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The Department of Health is looking for expert analysis of potential measures to encourage the provision of primary care and long-term residential care facilities, including possible new tax incentives.

Two research projects will identify and assess the various options available to the Government to encourage the provision, including the upgrading and refurbishment, of primary care centres (PCCs), and nursing home and community nursing unit facilities, Hawkins House said.

Analysts will be required to assess if it is preferable for the Government to address infrastructural shortages by means of direct build, public private partnership, tax incentives or other initiatives.

Where tax incentives are considered to be an effective instrument to meet policy objectives, the consultants will determine the optimal design for such incentives so as to minimise tax foregone or deadweight effects.

The analyses should determine the current and future requirements for PCC and nursing unit facilities for the period 2015-2035 by geographic areas and the likely gaps in the absence of additional measures to encourage provision.

Both analyses should utilise and build on the substantial work already undertaken by the HSE in mapping supply and demand by geographic area.

To this end, HSE Estates is currently carrying out a mapping exercise that will show primary care centres and potential primary care infrastructure locations. This is expected to be completed in the coming weeks.

For the long-term residential units, this work includes an unpublished 2010 report assessing the need for nursing home places by Local Health Office area, and four Regional Action Plans that were developed in 2013 and which detail each region’s requirements in respect of public residential provision up to 2023.

Both analyses should also consider initiatives already under way or planned to address the inadequacy of existing infrastructure, while the nursing homes tender should further take into account the impact on supply of the requirement to comply with regulatory standards in addressing current deficiencies. Stakeholders, such as the ICGP and the IMO, should also be consulted.

lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie

Lloyd Mudiwa


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