Acute intervention teams bid to reduce hospital admissions

ACUTE intervention teams are being established throughout the country in a bid to keep people out of hospital altogether.

Health Service Executive (HSE) chief executive Professor Brendan Drumm revealed yesterday that the first Community Intervention Team (CIT) is to be established this week in Cork.

The team of public health nurses, general nurses, home-help organisers and clerical officers will cover patients within a 10-mile radius in Cork city.