Louise O'Reilly
Question:871. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the fully absorbed cost of running a hospital bed per day and per annum. [18046/20]
View answerTuesday, 28 July 2020
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The average daily running cost of a hospital bed includes clinical staffing, theatres, laboratories, non-clinical staffing and cleaning, maintenance and other running costs. The cost includes critical care and ward beds but they are not separately identifiable. The fully absorbed cost, includes treatment and care costs (such as diagnostics and theatres) as well as the running costs such as heating, lighting and servicing equipment, but excludes capital and depreciation. In addition, this figure does not include other associated hospital costs such as day-case, outpatient and emergency department costs.
In relation to the Deputy's specific question on the estimated cost of acute hospital beds, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly.