Hospital overhaul to be extended nationwide

AN OVERHAUL of the way acute hospital care is delivered in the north east to improve patient safety is to be replicated nationally.

Health Service Executive chief executive Prof Brendan Drumm said we had to accept that it was not just in the north east that patients were exposed to increased risks.

“We are far from an ideal service,” Prof Drumm declared at the launch yesterday of a new report that claims the provision of acute services by five local hospitals in the region was exposing patients to increased risks and creating additional professional risks for staff.