Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion

10:00 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

It is a fair ask. The point I attempted to demonstrate in my opening statement when I spoke about certain improvements in performance as opposed to activity was that they are enabled by two things, namely additionality of resources or productivity within the resource. We have been increasingly focused on both. Enabling improvement in the unscheduled care trolley position and in delayed transfers of care can include elements of productivity, be it in terms of the spread of availability of staff across the day-----