How is Ireland’s health service performing?
This page measures access, responsiveness, care delivered and avoidable delays. Daily, weekly, monthly and annual figures use different clocks, so they are not shown as one live picture. A section appears when at least one of its measures has an approved source and data.
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Methodology and disclosures
Trolley counts and delayed transfers come from the HSE daily urgent and emergency care report. Waiting lists come from NTPF open data. Those lists stay separate. A waiting-list stock is not people treated.
Hospital trolley counts are the same 8am snapshot, one row per hospital. They are not a rate and they are not a league table. A complete numeric day is stored when the hospital rows add up to the national total. A negative cell, a 75-and-over count above the over-24-hour count, a trolley total that is not the sum of its components, or a short row is left out and is not replaced with zero. The other counts on that day are kept. A page heading that names a different region does not move the hospital.
The HSE daily report is reused under the European Union (Open Data and Re-use of Public Sector Information) Regulations 2021 (S.I. No. 376/2021), which give effect to Directive (EU) 2019/1024. Source: HSE Urgent and Emergency Care Report. NTPF waiting lists are reused under the NTPF’s published re-use terms, with attribution. Outpatient and inpatient stocks are the sum of the published hospital file, adult and child together. The September 2026 GI endoscopy file is 43,288 and the NTPF news release is 43,285, so that list stays off this page until the difference is reconciled. The September 2026 outpatient time bands sum to 15 more people than the outpatient total. Both figures are published and the chart shows the difference. Funding, staffing, beds and population outcomes are on the other health pages.
Annual hip, knee and cataract counts come from the Department of Health JQ13 surgical procedures return (HIPE total cases). They are never added together. A per 100,000 view divides each count by the April PEA01 population of the same year. That rate is calculated and is not age-standardised. The six-hour emergency-department figure is the CSO HSPAN14 share of attendees discharged or admitted within six hours of registration. It is a published share, not a trolley count. CAMHS and Assessment of Need figures are exact published parliamentary numbers stored in a checked fixture. Values without a source sentence are not stored.