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Tuesday, 29 January 2019
Department of Health
Hospital Beds Data
Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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446. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 172 of 23 January 2019, the location of the additional 240 beds in the past 12 months by hospital in tabular form. [4420/19]
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Increasing bed capacity is a Government priority. Over the past 18 months an additional 240 beds have been opened of which as detailed in the table:
2017-2018 Acute Beds open
| Hospital Group | Hospital | Type of bed | Number of beds |
|---|---|---|---|
| RCSI | Our Lady of Lourdes Drogheda | Acute beds (part of new bed block) | 25 |
| RCSI | Beaumont Hospital | Acute beds | 20 |
| DM | St. James’sHospital | Acute beds | 23 |
| DM | Naas General Hospital | Acute beds | 11 |
| IE | The Mater Hospital | Acute beds | 24 |
| Saolta | Galway University Hospital | Acute beds | 28 |
| UL | Limerick University Hospital | Short Stay beds | 17 |
| IE | St. Vincent’s Hospital | Acute beds | 22 |
| IE | Mater Misericordiae University Hospital | HDU beds | 2 |
| IE | St. Luke’s Hospital Kilkenny | Acute beds | 14 |
| RCSI | Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda | Acute beds (part of new ward block) | 4 |
| SSW | Cork University Hospital | Acute beds | 30 |
| SSW | Cork University hospital | Critical care beds | 2 |
| SSW | Waterford University Hospital | Acute beds | 18 |
| Total | 240 |
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