Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Public Accounts Committee
Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery
11:20 am
Professor Frank Keane:
They are because everything that comes in as a day case is hype coded, even a little cyst that would be taken off. If that happens to be brought in as a day case, it will be coded as a day case. There are a number of those. We reckon that something like 25% or 30% or up to that are possibly things that can done on a lesser site.
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