John Cummins (Fine Gael)
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It does. I see from what happens in the cardiology department and other areas in UHW that the staff team and management are able to achieve numbers that are not being achieved in other hospitals. They have achieved that with fewer staff and less of a budget. That begs the question; if the numbers and presentations are as high and are increasing and the staff complement is considerably lower, how is it achieving that when other hospitals are not? We are talking about money and budgets and making economies of scale regarding efficiencies in ehealth and the rest of it. How do we maximise outcomes based on the staff complement we have? That is the question I am posing.