Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On clinical redesign and elderly patients discharged from hospital who come back in within a time period, have we done an analysis of that timeframe? I have seen figures, though not recent ones, indicating quite a large number are back in hospital or calling services within six weeks of discharge. Has having the appropriate level of support once they are discharged from hospital been looked at? It is not necessarily Mr. Morton's area but I am sure the ambulance service comes across this, where they know from talking to a patient that he or she was only in hospital six weeks earlier.