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

12:20 pm

Dr. Tony O'Connell:

It is clear that a more robust reconfiguration, which makes better use of the beds in all four institutions, needs to occur. That can happen quite quickly. As the Deputy said, we may have to do certain things during surges in demand like those we expect to see in winter. For example, we may have to convert wards that currently accept patients for just 12 hours a day and start using them 24 hours a day.

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