Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 November 2016

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare

Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups

9:00 am

Mr. Ian Carter:

It would have been identified in the national service plan. Each hospital in the groups effectively has two budgets. It has expenditure and the requirement to generate income. The national service plan set stretch targets, as they are termed, for income. They are only achievable if a hospital gets more private patients coming in. In certain instances, not only in my group, that patient flow increase has not occurred. Ergo, in certain instances on the income side, it is likely that we will not achieve those income targets.

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