Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly expected to make announcement on Wednesday, with a further tranche of more hospital beds likely to be scheduled for between 2028 and 2030
The Minister has come under strong criticism from doctors, nurses and healthcare campaigners, who argue there are insufficient beds in public hospitals to cater for a rising and ageing population
An announcement on the provision of a further tranche of additional acute hospital beds, to be put in place between 2028 and 2030, is also believed to be likely in the near future. Some sources suggested on Tuesday that this could involve the provision of a further 800 or so additional acute hospital beds.
The announcement by Mr Donnelly comes as hospitals are already facing financial pressures. The HSE recorded an overrun of about €500 million in the first four months of the year. The secretary general of the Department of Health, Robert Watt, said in early May that about 75 per cent of this overspending was in the acute hospital sector.
Earlier this month the Irish Medical Organisation told the Oireachtas Committee on Health that Ireland needed an additional 5,000 acute hospital beds over a relatively short period of time.
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