CUH to be major trauma centre

Although the hospital has long described itself as the country’s only level 1 trauma centre, it “currently does not meet the requirements for this designation”, according to Dr Conor Deasy, HSE clinical lead of major trauma audit at the National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) and consultant in emergency medicine at CUH.
To meet the requirements, it would need, inter alia, a helipad, a CT scanner in the emergency department and additional bed capacity in the intensive care unit.