Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 June 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed)
Mr. Liam Woods:
On delayed transfers of care, at the moment the number is around 400 in the acute system. It has gone up from a low of just over 200, if we go back a few weeks. That is an issue we are working on. It is not all nursing home-related and some of that will be for home care or other specialist care, but that is a factor in the system at the moment. Work is under way with a view to ensuring we move patients to appropriate locations of care as quickly as possible.
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