Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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557. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient discharges for every acute hospital in the State in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [44008/23]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Please see the table at the link.

Source:

(i) This data is sourced from the Hospital In-patient Enquiry (HIPE) database.

(ii) Data for 2023 is not fully coded yet and figures for this year should be considered provisional up to August 2023

(iii) Data for 2022 is now considered as final

Notes:

(i) The HIPE database record discharges, not patients. The figures in this table relate to number of inpatient discharges, not individual patients

(ii) An Inpatient is a person who was admitted as a patient to hospital and stayed overnight