Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion
Ms Mary Day:
As Professor Cowan mentioned earlier, what we have gone through in the last two years with Covid has been a huge disrupter. What we are seeing now in the system is that there is huge pent-up demand coming through, given populations may have waited longer to attend and there is a higher acuity level. It is an exercise that we need to do on a yearly basis in regard to recalibrating our demand and capacity modelling. We know the population is getting older and we are seeing increases of population in different areas.
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