Consultants complained over A&E, council told

Three Roscommon County Hospital consultants wrote to the HSE in January 2011 warning that they could no longer stand over patient safety because of the hospital’s accident and emergency department.

At the time, there were only “five or six competent junior doctors” out of a staff of 12, one of the consultants told the Medical Council.

Consultant geriatrician Dr Gerry O’Mara described patient safety in Roscommon as being “in a spiral” and “out of control”.