Hospitals plan to build or buy housing for staff in bid to retain nurses

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Minister for Health suggested funding could be available from capital health budget but it would be for the HSE to work with hospitals and take the lead

“Individual hospitals are now looking at this. I think that’s very positive because I think, in the cases of the hospitals that are having the most difficulty in hiring people, it is because of the lack of rental accommodation. They’re the ones that really are looking to prioritise this,” he said.

He said he could see no reason why funding might not be provided from the capital budget for next year, although “it would be up to the HSE and the hospitals to put together bids for this kind of accommodation but, certainly, that can be that can be looked at as part of the normal estimates process yet.”

“Life has moved on in every international healthcare setting from that time. I certainly don’t see us going back into that space,” he said. He said he and other party representatives had recently met officials from Children’s Health Ireland and that the possibility of using the Crumlin Hospital site for HSE staff accommodation when services are moved from it to the new national children’s hospital had been one of the issues raised.

 

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