Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion
Dr. Mike O'Connor:
On the national perspective, we engaged with the model 2 hospitals, which also feel that they have a bigger role to play in that emergency presentation. The National Ambulance Service is working collaboratively with one of the model 2 hospitals to allow for direct ambulance transfer to it as part of a pilot project. That will be successful. It will give great confidence to the other model 2 hospitals. It will clearly be patient friendly as an ambulance whizzes by Ennis on the way to UHL and then back out the following day for a low-acuity problem.
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