Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 4 May 2022
521. Deputy Martin Browne asked the Minister for Health the details of the specialist team tasked with addressing trolley numbers at University Hospital Limerick; the options that will be open to this specialist team to improve patient pathways; the way this specialist team will address the impact that high trolley numbers at UHL is affecting services at Nenagh Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22169/22]
View answerI wrote to Mr. Reid, CEO of the HSE, on 26th April to request that an expert team be sent to University Hospital Limerick to ascertain urgently what additional resources might be deployed, as well as any changes that could be made quickly to alleviate the current pressures being experienced in the Emergency Department. I have stressed that it is very important to me that the management and the clinicians at University Hospital Limerick get all of the support that they possibly need.
Through my engagement with the HSE, the management of University Hospital Limerick have assured me that they are currently undergoing an assessment of the hospital's patient pathways.
My Department and the HSE will continue to work with local hospital management to improve patient experience in UHL.
