Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare
Health Service Reform: HSE
9:00 am
Mr. Liam Woods:
I will take Deputy Barry's question on elective capacity. The HSE undertakes about 94,000 elective inpatient cases per year. In total, the HSE does 1.6 million cases per year. The elective capacity is reducing at around 1,000 to 1,500 per year and it is being replaced by a greater volume of emergency work, and day case volume is growing. That is the trend within the data on what is happening in the current service provision. There was a question about multi-----