Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 May 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health
9:30 am
Ms Mary Day:
The PET is the patient experience time. There is variation nationally. What we are aiming for is that patients wait in an emergency department and are seen and treated and either discharged home or transferred to the ward within a six-hour timeline. There are national targets in that regard and about 56% to 60% of patients meet that timeline. We then have a further timeline of nine hours, which is a higher percentage, going up to 75%. Then, unfortunately, we have patients who breach the 24 hours, but that is all dependent, as the Deputy can imagine-----