James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average cost of running an acute hospital bed per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21859/09]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The National average cost per in-patient bedday for 2007 (the latest full year for which audited data is available) was €844. This average cost is calculated from the diverse range of 37 hospitals who submitted costings to the Casemix/HIPE Unit, Health Service Executive as part of the National Casemix Programme.

Based on an average cost of €844 per bed-day, the average cost of running an acute hospital bed per week is €5,908.

It should be noted that the in-patient cost per bed-day for each hospital will be different depending on the size of the hospital and the complexity of the patients that it treats.

The above costings exclude capital and depreciation costs. It also excludes daycases, outpatients and emergency department costs.