Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 September 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 38 - Department of Health

9:00 am

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Perhaps the Deputy will allow me to finish. Some Dublin and rural hospitals are performing far better than others. I have never heard anybody pointing out where good practices are leading to improvements in the number of patients on trolleys and patient experiences. Perhaps I do not do so enough. There is not sufficient consideration within the health service of why Beaumont, Cavan or Mayo hospitals now have very low waiting lists and numbers of patients on trolleys compared to previous figures and what can be learned from that. Every hospital manager can give me a wish list what he or she wants to happen in his or her hospital-----

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