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| Title: | Health Service Executive annual report and annual financial statement 2009 |
| Other titles: | HSE annual report 2009 |
| Authors: | Health Service Executive (HSE) |
| Publisher: | Health Service Executive (HSE) |
| Issue date: | Jun-2010 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/104963 |
| Type: | Report |
| Language: | en |
| Description: | During 2009:
• More services were provided with proportionately
less funding
• The number of patients waiting for inpatient and day
case procedures continued to decline – compared to
2008 the number waiting over 12 months for inpatient
care declined by 64% and 66% for day case care
• More procedures were carried out on a day case basis
– up 7% on 2008 and up 32% since 2005
• For certain procedures in areas such as Ophthalmology,
ENT surgery, 66% of activity was undertaken on a day
case basis
• The number of new attendees seen in Outpatients
Clinics increased by nearly 5%
• 98% of people with symptomatic breast disease
classifi ed as urgent are now seen within two weeks of
referral, with 95% being seen within the 12 week target
• The number of operating Primary Care Teams exceeded
our target reaching 219 at the end of 2009, with a further
184 in development
• New services were implemented with the essential support
of new capital infrastructure; examples include the opening
of new medical assessment units in Galway and Sligo,
early childcare services in Mayo and outreach family
support in Cork, a new Outpatient Department in Kilkenny,
doubling our national bed capacity for child and adolescent
inpatient facilities, new disability facilities in Athlone,
community nursing units for older people in Dublin, a
new palliative care suite in Tuam, and also the expansion
of addiction counselling services in Cork. |
| Keywords: | HEALTH SERVICES AND THEIR MANAGEMENT
FINANCE |
| Appears in collections: | Corporate
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