The rate of hospitalisation for heart failure varied from 112 per 100,000 people in Kerry to 283 in Carlow, according to regional variations highlighted in the report.
There was a threefold variation in the rate of hospitalisation for people with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) between the lowest county, Kerry, and the highest, Offaly.
Overall, Irish rates are twice the European average.
There was a fourfold variation in the rate of hospitalisation for asthma between the lowest county, Monaghan, and the highest, Longford.
Diabetes
For diabetes hospitalisation, the variation was twofold, between the lowest county, Leitrim, and the highest, Carlow.
Tullamore hospital did surgery on 75 per cent of hip fractures within two days of admission, while St Vincent’s in Dublin achieved this in almost 95 per cent of cases.
More Caesareans
The Caesarean section rate varied from 24 per cent in the National Maternity Hospital to a high of 36.9 per cent in South Tipperary General Hospital, Clonmel.
The uptake for breast cancer screening improved last year after some years of decline and five counties reached the 80 per cent target.
Roscommon had the highest uptake of the MMR and Meningococcal C vaccines for two-year-old children, while Dublin North Central had the lowest MMR uptake and Wicklow was lowest for Men C.
