Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 November 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery

11:40 am

Mr. Charlie Hardy:

A day case is normally a less complex one. Therefore, the inpatient case that it replaces will be a less complex case. One would expect the inpatient case that is replaced to be of lesser value than the average inpatient case because one normally expects the less complex inpatients to move to day cases.