Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 18 January 2023
1635. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Health the number of annual inpatient cases attending the Mater hospital for cancer services in the years 2019 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1932/23]
View answerThe details requested by the Deputy are supplied in the table. In the period 2019-2021, the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry data from the Healthcare Pricing Office reports that there was an average of 2,509 discharges per year of inpatients with a principal diagnosis code indicating a neoplasm at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, while a further 6,406 discharges on average per year have attended for neoplasm appointments on a day case basis.
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Total Inpatient and Day Case discharges with a principal diagnosis of 'Neoplasm' at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, 2019 - 2021 |
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2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
Average annual discharges for 2019-2021 |
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Inpatient |
2,650 |
2,279 |
2,598 |
2,509 |
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Day Case |
6,591 |
6,068 |
6,558 |
6,406 |
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Total |
9,241 |
8,347 |
9,156 |
8,915 |
