Consultants worried about planned ED closure in Navan

RTÉ News has seen a letter which was signed by 17 consultants at the hospital in Drogheda and sent to Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly this week.

The consultants refer to data from the HSE unscheduled care performance report published in May, which ranked Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital as the fifth busiest emergency department in the country. The consultants said that clinicians only became aware of the move by national media shortly before the implementation.

In the strongly worded letter, the consultants questioned the rationale behind the decision to close the emergency department in Navan.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

'Downgrade the emergency Department' is RTÉ Spin, for what we in the real world would call 'Close'

The hospitals they moved patients to in the past are now continously overcrowded because the promised increase in capacity and resources never happened right up to the present day.

HSE putting the cart before the horse - as usual! They haven’t learned an iota from the Ennis ED closure and the effect on UHL. Shame on them!

Don’t pass the buck to Drogheda. Fix the problem. savenavanhospital

Absolute Disaster written all over this. Drogheda was already on its knees and now this.

They should. Just look at UHL

Maybe if the consultants did a little less private work and a little more public work, then the proposed transition would be a little more safe?

It will work as well as the closure of the A&E departments in Ennis, Nenagh etc and the subsequent impact on the remaining hospitals with 24 hour A&E departments.

1)At least the letter acknowledges that the Navan ED is DANGEROUS and therefore it MUST go. 2) Politicians must now get their brownie points by RESOURCING PRE-EXISTING ED’s & Depts NOT by building NON-ESSENTIAL NEW CHILDREN’s Hospital.

are they the same ones whose facilitation of the altering of medical records at that hospital led to Justice Meenan having to recommend criminalising the altering of medical records?

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