CUH consultants back co-located plan

CONSULTANTS at Cork University Hospital (CUH) united yesterday to back controversial plans for a private co-located hospital on the CUH campus.

A letter from Dr Denis Kelly, the chairman of the Consultant Medical Staff at CUH, was read into the record on day two of the Bord Pleanála oral hearing into the Beacon Medical Group’s (BMG) plans to build a €250 million 175-bed private hospital at CUH.

The letter said the consultants want to support “in the strongest terms” the development of the co-located hospital.