Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)
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Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a consultancy company (details supplied) has been brought in to look at the organisation of acute services in Dublin including accident and emergency services; if this company is a sister company of another company in the UK which runs private clinics such as VHI swiftcare clinics; if she has commissioned a report from a company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13658/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The national hospitals office of the Health Service Executive commissioned a company to undertake a process mapping exercise across ten acute hospitals. The project focused on the maximum utilisation of existing acute capacity and in particular, the blockages, causes and potential solutions in the patient's journey from the decision to admit to discharge. The ten hospitals examined included the major Dublin academic teaching hospitals. My Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly in relation to the company which carried out the work.