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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Four hundred and forty-seven.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: What number of staff members is in that subset?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Given the major problems in EDs, it would be helpful to know what additional nurses the HSE is going to provide this winter. I want to move on to another aspect of acute beds and that is delayed discharges. I have figures from September across all hospitals. At that stage, and I suspect the figure is probably worse now, there were 621 delayed discharges in our acute hospitals. We can...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Anybody in the HSE could make those claims any year, because there is nothing different.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Has the HSE a specific plan to reduce that number of delayed discharges from 621 to a lower figure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Apart from the generalities, has the HSE a specific plan to reduce that number of 621 delayed discharges?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. Hospitals cannot do an awful lot about lack of funding or lack of staff for home care. What is the HSE centre as an organisation doing about that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Does the HSE have an overall plan for reducing that number?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Sure, but it is the solutions I am looking for.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: How many additional community beds will be available this winter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: How many additional community beds are provided for in the winter plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: When are all those beds expected to be delivered? What is the target date?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I want to come back in about staffing later but I will leave it there for the moment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: The HSE has put a certain amount of emphasis, in the winter plan, on avoiding attendances at EDs and avoiding admissions. That is only right as it is another logjam. I mean a lot of people end up in EDs who should have an alternative pathway. The difficulty is that in many cases there are no alternative pathways. That seems to be a key issue in respect of the logjams. The advice being...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Am I correct to say that most of them are not open out-of-hours?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: What options are available out-of-hours and in the evening for the scenario I have outlined?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Is the service available up to 8 o’clock?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I am talking about emergencies that arise out-of-hours.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: They are the global figures.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)
Róisín Shortall: What is a parent with a very sick child supposed to do at 11 o’clock at night?