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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Why is the Department not selecting that site?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: But why was it recommended? Why not go with the blindingly obvious?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: When does the Minister expect a decision on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Obviously, there is much work going on. However, I am not hearing the data behind these decisions. Perhaps it exists and I hope it does. There are a number of areas where I want to know whether there is data available and whether it can be made available to the committee. The first one relates to EDs and the overcrowding in them and all of that. What analysis has been done of the reasons...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Has the HSE analysed the reason people are attending, specifically in each hospital? Presumably, that information is taken when somebody checks in. Why are they there? Are they there with an asthma attack? Are they there because they have had a sports injury? Are they there because they have nowhere else to go? It might be an elderly person. Is that data available? Unless the HSE has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: No. Sorry. That is not what I am talking about. I am not talking about severity or priority but rather the reasons people attend.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is it because of diabetes, or what is it? Does Dr. Henry have figures on that so they can design and provide services to meet the actual need for people who are attending emergency departments, ED?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Can Dr. Henry provide that data?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Do we know what percentage of people arrive with a sports injury?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I am talking about EDs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Okay, I-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Sorry, I am not talking about in the general population. I am talking about the reason people turn up at EDs. From what the witnesses have said I do not think they do collect that data and I think it is a mistake not to do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: If it is available for any hospital I ask the witnesses to provide it to the committee, and I will leave it at that. They can come back and let the committee know whether it is available or not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: The second type of data I think it important is on outpatient waiting lists. The standard thing seems to be that if I go to see my GP with an issue and need to go to a consultant, that GP in the main will refer me to a consultant they know. They may have been in college with them or know them personally. That consultant might have a 15-month waiting list. Am I not entitled to know if...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Categorically yes to what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is that happening?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: My last question relates to data. Can the Minister provide data relating to the ratio of acute beds to population in each of the hospital groups?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: If that could be provided, that would be helpful. Following on from that, obviously there has been a lot of concentration on Limerick and the logjams there. Why is it the only hospital group that does not have a level three hospital?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: That must be a factor with the long wait times. Does the Minister accept that and why can it not be then corrected?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I am not saying new, I am just saying level three.