PQ 342
342. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a media report (details supplied) which suggests that 168,438 adult bed days per year, equivalent to 460 beds per day, could be saved through the targeted use of oral nutritional supplements in the management of disease-related malnutrition in the community; the measures that have been put in place to free up these beds in the midst of the acute facility beds shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53070/17]
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12 December 2017
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12 December 2017 · Community Care Provision
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Kelleher, Billy.
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12 December 2017
Summary
342. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a media report (details supplied) which suggests that 168,438 adult bed days per year, equivalent to 460 beds per day, could be saved through the targeted use of oral nutritional supplements in the management of disease-related malnutrition in the community; the measures that have been put in place to free up these beds in the midst of the acute facility beds shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53070/17]
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12 December 2017
Community Care Provision
342. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a media report (details supplied) which suggests that 168,438 adult bed days per year, equivalent to 460 beds per day, could be saved through the targeted use of oral nutritional supplements in the management of disease-related malnutrition in the community; the measures that have been put in place to free up these beds in the midst of the acute facility beds shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53070/17]
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Community Care Provision
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- Official source: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2017-12-12/342/
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