HSE rules out hotel proposal for co-location site

MULTI-MILLION euro proposals by a business consortium to construct a hotel on the grounds of a public hospital were ruled out by the HSE, it emerged last night.

Under the government’s controversial co-location plans, the Synchrony consortium had sought to build a hotel on top of a private hospital on the grounds of St James’s hospital in Dublin 8.

However, the Health Service Executive (HSE) last night insisted that in awarding Synchrony the contract to build a private hospital last month, the “agreed criteria” did not include anything other than providing 195 acute beds.