Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE

Ms Yvonne O'Neill:

-----specifically on the transitional care beds. Their variation in usage or take-up across the country is directly related to where the availability of those additional beds is. There are a significant number of beds between the 665 beds that are in the transitional care fund and the privately contracted beds numbering nearly 700. There is a high level of usage of those beds and they are actually at around 90% occupancy across the country. I refer to the point about the two weeks, and again I would be happy to follow up on individual cases as that would be unusual because what we generally find is that we are very flexible with families based on the circumstances around the period of time. Two weeks would be a very short stay and average stays would be longer than that in terms of the agreed level of stay. I would be happy to follow up where families have had that experience-----

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