There were over 1.44 million attendances to the hospital emergency department in Ireland in 2021, the second-highest amount in the provided time interval. The year with the lowest amount of attendances in the given time period was 2008, which had approximately 1.15 million attendances.
Health service in Ireland
Alongside the general rise in attendances to the emergency department, employment in Irish hospitals has increased. The total employment in hospitals in Ireland amounted to over 78.3 thousand, an increase of around 31 thousand since the year 2000. Furthermore, there were 4,300 general practitioners in Ireland, which also is a huge rise in the number of GPs compared to 2000.
Spending indicators on health
Ireland’s expenditure on healthcare was 6.7 percent of GDP in 2021, this share has experienced some fluctuations over the years and was as high as 10.6 percent in 2012. In comparison to other European countries, Ireland ranked in the lower half of countries on the share of GDP spent on health expenditures. Germany had the highest share of expenditure on health, spending 12.8 percent of its GDP in this year.
Number of emergency department attendances in Ireland from 2006 to 2021
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Department of Health Ireland. (December 1, 2022). Number of emergency department attendances in Ireland from 2006 to 2021 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved October 31, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/660509/emergency-department-attendances-ireland/
Department of Health Ireland. "Number of emergency department attendances in Ireland from 2006 to 2021." Chart. December 1, 2022. Statista. Accessed October 31, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/660509/emergency-department-attendances-ireland/
Department of Health Ireland. (2022). Number of emergency department attendances in Ireland from 2006 to 2021. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: October 31, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/660509/emergency-department-attendances-ireland/
Department of Health Ireland. "Number of Emergency Department Attendances in Ireland from 2006 to 2021." Statista, Statista Inc., 1 Dec 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/660509/emergency-department-attendances-ireland/
Department of Health Ireland, Number of emergency department attendances in Ireland from 2006 to 2021 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/660509/emergency-department-attendances-ireland/ (last visited October 31, 2024)
Number of emergency department attendances in Ireland from 2006 to 2021 [Graph], Department of Health Ireland, December 1, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/660509/emergency-department-attendances-ireland/