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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Have the resources for that been defined?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: So the HSE is waiting. The public in Limerick and the mid-west look at one key statistic, which we all do and that is the trolley count. The HSE may disagree with the INMO figures but that is what we follow. When I perused the INMO figures, I discovered that since 22 June the figures have improved although not initially. The figures were quite good up to the end of August but since...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Can Professor Cowan or Professor Lenehan tell me what the HSE has requested for the winter plan? The figures show that the UHL trolley count is growing and is higher than last year. We are facing into a really difficult winter in Limerick and the mid-west. As we do not want to consistently be the highest, what is required in the short term?.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is an abstract answer so please define what is meant by "additional resources".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has the PMIU looked at a winter plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: When must UHL submit that, Professor Cowan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The PMIU team are the experts. If the PMIU goes in and says everything is being done, then I expect whatever winter plan submitted by UHL would be funded. There must be a reason that UHL's numbers are so high all of the time. Even with the PMIU on site, the trolley counts are still high, which fundamentally tells me that there is a problem with resources whatever way one wants to look at...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How quickly can that be done?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: What about capacity?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are there vacant beds in any of the hospitals in the UL Hospitals Group at this moment in time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are there any wards closed at the moment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How many beds are involved?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How long will that last?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is a lot of beds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How high is the rate of absenteeism in the UL Hospitals Group at present?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I have a very open mind about elective services. We need elective beds. St. John's is in the middle of the city, has a 90-bed Nightingale ward and the hospital has the capacity to possibly increase that number to 150 beds, which would mean 60 additional new beds. The UPMC is an other option. Has the HSE had discussions about the UPMC and St. John's? Is the HSE open to St. John's playing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The HSE's submission is littered with references to reconfiguration. While that was Government policy, it was not Government policy to close three EDs and leave only one. There were 35 ED beds between the hospitals of UHL, Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's and overnight, the number was reduced to 17 ED beds. That was not policy. There were to be 136 co-location beds on the grounds of UHL. It...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: If the HSE builds a 96-bed block then thereafter, does every new block that is built contain new beds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: So there will be 48 beds but one is still short 87 beds. Will building a second 96-bed block bring the number up to the 642 that is sought?