HSE to announce revamp of north-east hospital services
The Health Service Executive is reportedly due to announce a complete restructuring of health services in the north-east today.
Reports this morning said the reorganisation had been devised following an independent review that recommended the centralisation of all major services at a new hospital that should be built in the region.
The review was commissioned following the death of a 75-year-old man at Monaghan General Hospital last October.
Patrick Walsh needed emergency surgery on a bleeding ulcer, but the operation could not be carried out in Monaghan because surgeons there are not permitted to do emergency procedures.
