HSE plan ‘expected to remedy’ hospital emergency department overcrowding

A recent report on University Hospital Limerick by the Health Information and Quality Authority reflected on a 'grossly overcrowded' emergency department. File photograph: The Irish TimesA strategy has been put in place to address overcrowding problems at University Hospital Limerick and pressures at the country’s 28 other emergency departments .

A recent report on UHL by the Health Information and Quality Authority reflected on a “grossly overcrowded” emergency department placing people at risk of harm, jeopardising the quality and safety of care and compromising dignity, privacy and confidentiality of patients. The hospital’s chief executive and the head of Mid-West Community Healthcare have since been told the HSE’s Performance Management Improvement Unit is to “engage urgently” with the hospital group.The unit is expected to provide intensive support to hospital and community teams to ensure that issues identified in a recent assessment and in the Hiqa report are addressed “as a matter of urgency”, said the Department of Health on Wednesday.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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