Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues

Mr. Liam Woods:

That does not negate the point, to be fair, that the reason to compare normal emergency department flow is very valid. When we look at our own activity-based funding data, and I am happy to share this, the cost per case in those environments does not vary a whole lot. Some work has been done to look at the level of resource, and activity-based funding does this, associated with each case. That has been helpful in examining the relative efficiency across the system. I will not speak on that much now but there has been much work on this which I would be happy to share to help move further on that.