HSE to investigate hospital’s failure to find beds for A&E patients

A PROBE ordered by the Health Service Executive at the Mid Western Regional Hospital may have far reaching implications on how its A&E unit interact with other departments to keep patients off trolleys.

The HSE has appointed a review group to establish what caused a huge logjam of trolley patients at the hospital earlier this month.

The HSE had to intervene after a war of words flared among hospital staff over what happened.