Leaked report finds only one viable emergency unit in Waterford

WATERFORD Regional Hospital is the only hospital in the south-east with a clinically viable Emergency Department (ED), according to a leaked report.

A review of acute services in the Health Service Executive (HSE) South found a number of services at hospitals in the southeast “clearly lack either clinical viability now or sustainability into the future”. These included EDs at Wexford Regional Hospital, St Luke’s General Hospital and South Tipperary General Hospital. The report, re-drafted four times, was also critical of the split, across four sites, of obstetrics and paediatrics and the “fragmented nature of critical care services”.

The hospitals included in the report are Waterford Regional, Wexford General, St Luke’s General and South Tipperary General.