HSE West facilities face ‘streamlining’ in bid to cut costs

DIRECTOR of operations at the Health Service Executive (HSE) west area has warned of a proposed streamlining of facilities in the region.

John Hennessy claimed: “There are too many health facilities in the west and we are going to have to rationalise and streamline them.”

On top of its acute hospital network stretching from Limerick to Donegal, there are 43 residential facilities scattered across the region, including Clare and north Tipperary.