Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion

Mr. Dean Sullivan:

That was the point I making. The unscheduled care is a more complex problem with hard capacity issues in there in terms of patients who, no matter how many community alternatives we have, will require admission to hospital. That is flagged up in the PA review, which states that even today we are 1,000 beds light of what we would need to tackle the occupancy issue the Deputy was talking about. That is why we have to continue to apply pressure on the unscheduled care side of things and control. I think it will be a slower improvement but on the scheduled care side-----

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