Pilot scheme ‘will leave patients permanently on hospital trolleys’

PATIENTS will be permanently on trolleys when the first pilot scheme of the Hanly Report on hospital restructuring is implemented, hospital consultants warned yesterday.

The Mid-West has been given the go-ahead as the first pilot region for the implementation of hospital rationalisation and this will see Ennis and Nenagh losing their acute hospital services.

The Mid-West Regional Hospital in Limerick will be the main centre for all acute patients in the region with patients from Ennis and Nenagh having to travel there.