Patients set for hospital move

THE HSE is preparing to move the remaining 33 patients at Heatherside Hospital near Buttevant to a new community nursing home in Cork.

The patients, many of whom are psycho-geriatric, will move to a community nursing unit, to open on the grounds of St Mary’s Orthopedic Hospital in Gurranabraher.

HSE local health manager Greta Crowley said staff would also transfer. She said the HSE was preparing to talk to unions, staff, patients and families.