No plan to publish intensive care report

THE HSE says there are no immediate plans to publish a report calling for 100 additional intensive care unit beds.

Despite the review of adult critical care services in all 37 acute hospitals in January 2008, it has not been forwarded to Health Minister Mary Harney or the HSE Board. The document, drawn up by consultancy firm Prospectus, is understood to detail a series of critical care service reforms over the next decade, including:

nOne hundred new intensive care beds.