Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 October 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023

9:30 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

We are certainly attempting to increase community beds, and how we use the private sector, not just for long-term care but for transition care, which is very high volume, and for various types of models of step-down care. We are flexing everything we have to use both. Part of the challenge arises out of the historical level of growth of dependency on the private sector. We are 80% dependent on it, so that in itself presents part of the challenge. A lot of the private operators, whether the smaller ones or the very big ones, have very different approaches to their business models, and so on. It is not an easy challenge for us to resolve but the one thing we cannot do is deal with the pricing model for the private sector. That is for the NTPF to deal with.

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