Hospital Procedures
Dail Éireann — 2021-12-03
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Stephen Donnelly (FF), Wicklow

If the Deputy is willing to share his note then I will be delighted to take a look. There is no better insight that I get, no more than the Deputy, than meeting clinicians, healthcare providers, social care providers, patients and their families and seeing what is going on. An awful lot is working and people have done incredible work but, as the Deputy has quite rightly said, more is needed.
While we have seen record recruitment into the HSE this year and last year, and record acute beds, the community care side of things has proven more challenging. While we are broadly on target for adding acute beds that is not the case for community beds or community recruitment. We have very ambitious targets.

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Sitting date: 2021-12-03