Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 April 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011

10:50 am

Mr. Barry O'Brien:

No, hospital CEOs, together with clinical directors, are having direct engagement with those consultants who are outliers and they are advising them of how far off the 14 days they are and requesting that they take immediate action. One could use the word "transition", implying it is taking some time, but there is a significant amount of direct intervention and action being taken to get to 14 days as quickly as possible.