Dr. Colm Henry:

Our move is towards creating more enablement and rehabilitation beds. We are often asked by the committee about additional acute bed capacity. With the ageing demographics, we need to re-profile our long-term beds and some of our short-stay beds to re-enabling beds, particularly for post-acute patients given that an increased proportion of people are being admitted to hospital who are over 75 years of age. This is part of our plan.