Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
Question:557. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked 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]
View answerTuesday, 10 October 2023
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Please see the table at the link.
Inpatient Discharges by Hospital 2016 to 2023
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