Other hospitals face safety probe after Mallow inquiry

MALLOW General Hospital is one of a number of hospitals where the Health Service Executive (HSE) has failed to prove to the health watchdog the services delivered to patients are safe.

A spokesperson for the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) said they had “concerns” for all small, standalone hospitals treating acute patients, after the HSE failed to show it had acted on a series of national recommendations contained in a report published 16 months ago.

The spokesperson said they had “constantly looked for information” from the HSE since publication of the report into Ennis General Hospital in April 2009, but “priority” issues identified in the report had not been addressed and timelines relating to specific actions had elapsed. Specifically, the HSE had failed: