Community nursing facility to be run by private sector

ONE of the country’s first new community nursing units (CNUs), which are designed to ease pressure on acute hospital beds, will be run by the private sector.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) blamed the Government’s public service recruitment ban, which means that it can’t hire the people to staff it.

The HSE is building four CNUs in Cork as part of a major €112 million investment in 12 such CNUs nationwide, which are designed to free up public beds in public hospitals.