HIQA concerned over patients’ safety ‘throughout Tallaght hospital’

SAFETY concerns expressed by the state’s health watchdog about the country’s busiest hospital do not stop at its emergency department, it has emerged.

The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has launched an investigation into the quality and safety of care given to patients at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin.

It is now understood that HIQA is concerned about the entire patient journey through the hospital system.