Posted on 09/04/2016 8:16:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai
It costs about €325,000 in construction and capital costs alone nowadays to provide an additional hospital bed.
That’s according to a confidential submission drawn up by the Department of Health for the new Oireachtas committee looking at the future of the health service.
It says that “based on current tender returns and space standards, the construction costs of a replacement hospital bed is in the region of €325,000, not including equipping costs”.
As a rule of thumb, it adds, annual ongoing revenue costs of operating an additional hospital bed run to €78,000 per year.
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I’ll build them one for half that!
And we thought we had problems with the hospital dynasty...
Send them some Mexicans. They can cut that figure by 75%!.......
It is accounting like this that administrators use to justify more administrators instead of more hospital beds.
So that’s like 1.5 million pounds of potatoes?
A single, standard hospital bed ALONE is over $50k. Just the BED!
Add in the cost of a normal structure, then the necessary extra wiring, plumbing in the oxygen, n2, vacuum, medical air, and washup sink and things really start to get expensive.
There are other considerations too: fire alarms, nurse call systems, standby power, etc.
Hospitals are very expensive systems to build and maintain by their very nature.
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