Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 October 2016
69. Deputy Shane Cassells asked the Minister for Health the status of the proposed regional hospital for counties Meath, Louth, Cavan and Monaghan which was to be constructed in Navan, County Meath; and when construction is likely to commence. [30492/16]
Amharc ar fhreagraThere are currently no plans to construct a regional hospital for the north east in Navan. The proposal that a regional hospital be developed in Navan originated in a report prepared for the HSE in 2008. This proposal was superseded by the Government's decision, in 2013, to re-organise acute hospitals into Hospital Groups.
Our Lady’s Hospital Navan is part of the Ireland East Hospital Group, which includes the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital; St Vincent's University Hospital; Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar; St Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny; Wexford General Hospital; National Maternity Hospital; St Columcille's Hospital; St Michael's Hospital, Dun Laoghaire; Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital and the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital.
Hospital Groups must increasingly focus on networks of service provision with smaller hospitals managing routine, urgent or planned care locally, more complex care managed in the larger hospitals and better linkages with primary, continuing and social care. Ireland East Hospital Group is developing a Strategic Plan to describe how they will provide more efficient and effective patient services and reorganise their services across the Group, including at Navan, to provide optimal care to the populations served.
