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Service Delivery<br />
Improve inpatient flow with continued focus on delayed discharges in partnership with social care<br />
services<br />
• Implement the Patient Flow Project in collaboration with the integrated programme for patient flow in<br />
pioneer sites, and implement the Winter Initiative Plan 2016 / 2017.<br />
Continue to improve patient experience times in EDs<br />
• Deliver targets under the winter initiative, implement the winter plans and continue to drive<br />
implementation of the ED taskforce action plan recommendations<br />
• Target a 5% improvement in patient experience time (PET) aspiring to 100%<br />
• Eliminate ED waiting times of >24 hours for patients<br />
• Co-operate with the roll-out of the integrated care programme for older people in acute hospital<br />
demonstrator sites.<br />
Improve access to urgent and planned care by increasing efficiencies, streamlining processes and<br />
maximising capacity in hospitals<br />
• Open new 75-bed replacement ward block in Galway University Hospital<br />
• Open University of Limerick Hospital ED<br />
• Open phase 2 of acute medical assessment unit (AMAU) in Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise<br />
• Actively manage waiting lists for inpatient and day case procedures to ensure no patient is waiting >18<br />
months and to meet targets set for those waiting
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