Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion

Ms Laura Magahy:

I am happy to supply the Deputy with the analysis after the meeting, but the bottom line is that, standing back, equalising across different beds across the system and taking the best-performing hospitals, we must consider average length of stay, people coming in when they should not, perhaps the night before an operation, and people in beds because they are waiting for radiology treatments - people not being in the right place. We have analysis and detail on that so we need to stop doing that. To do so, we need to be able to provide those services somewhere else, so it is not as simple as saying, "Stop doing that", because we need to provide alternatives. We are in the process of doing so. Some of this is accounted for by delayed discharges, and again the-----

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