Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion

2:00 am

Dr. Colm Henry:

That is the intention. Inpatient and outpatient care could make up different parts of a consultant's specialty and he or she will have different productivity targets. I know that sounds like a dreadful, dirty word, but we have to get there at some point. An example of a first step could be the new surgical hub we opened at Mount Carmel. It is a public-only facility. We have set a measure that 10,000 procedures can be done in a year there. That is the type of productivity target we are seeing.

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