Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE

Mr. Robert Watt:

In the report, we focused on outturn measures of activity as opposed to outcomes because we do not have a comprehensive set of data across all of the different areas of speciality. In the acute sector, we focused on outpatient consultations, day cases, inpatients and unscheduled care, so there were four broad outturn indicators or activity indicators within the acute setting. We then assigned the volume of work associated with each one of those. Obviously, an inpatient procedure where somebody is staying in a hospital overnight is much more demanding on the system than an outpatient consultation. We came up with a composite-----

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