Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE

Mr. Damien McCallion:

We would have seen an increase in the early part of the year in both Covid and flu. I will get my colleague, Dr. Ní Bhriain, to come in on this shortly. Effectively, that has started to come down now and we have seen it move back to what we would call normal levels at this point.

However, we are still continuing to see increased attendances - that has not changed substantially - but potentially the patient mix may have changed. That is something we will look at as we come out of it. In the first quarter, we did see the normal increase in flu and Covid but that has started to drop off substantially and we are now approaching normal levels since March. I will ask Dr. Ní Bhriain to fill in the detail.

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