Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

It has changed in the past six months. We have gone from a running average of 600 delayed transfers of care, DTOCs, to just below 500. There has been progress. I have a target of a monthly average of 440 DTOCs by the end of this year. Some would say that is not very ambitious but I will take 440 over 600 at this time last year. We will continue to progress on that. It will take time but there is planning, despite what might appear to be the absence of it. The 2018 capacity review, which covers the period out to 2031, indicates that a certain level of community beds are required but we can only put those in place when we have the resources available to do so.

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