Calls for change after Galway branded country’s worst performing hospital

THE director of operations for Health Executive Service (HSE) West, John Hennessy, yesterday called for the criteria in which acute hospitals are evaluated through the HSE Healthstat system to be changed.

Mr Hennessy’s call comes after the past three monthly Healtstat reports identified the main acute hospital in the west, University College Hospital Galway (UCHG), to be the only hospital in the red zone.

Healthstat evaluated 30 hospitals using the green, amber and red system of rating hospital services.