HSE team put in place to ease UHL overcrowding

A Health Service Executive support team is to be put in place in an attempt to ease overcrowding in health services in the midwest region.

The support team announced includes; Grace Rothwell, National Director, Orla Kavanagh, Director of Nursing and Integration at Waterford University Hospital, and retired Emergency Medicine Consultant Dr Fergal Hickey. Meanwhile, HSE Chief Executive Bernard Gloster said the support team would work"to manage patient flow and de-escalate the current pressures being experienced".

Responding to the announcement, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation said:"Any measures to alleviate the pressure on nurses and midwives in the Mid West region is to be welcomed.

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