Minister urged to act over UCHG

THERE have been calls for the Minister for Health to intervene in at University College Hospital Galway (UCHG) after it was found to be the worst-performing hospital in the country for the second month running.

Following publication of the Health Service Executive’s (HSE’s) Healthstat report, HSE West Regional Forum chairman, Cllr Padraig Conneely (FG), said: “It is time now for Minster James O’Reilly to intervene and call in management at the hospital.

He said: “UCHG is the biggest acute hospital in the west of Ireland and it is embarrassing for us that it finds itself again as the worst performing hospital in the country. Patient care is suffering and it must be dealt with. This cannot continue. A hands-on approach from the minister is required.”