Private hospitals anxious about 'hit and miss' supply of Covid vaccines for their frontline staff

All private hospitals, except the Beacon hospital, have signed up to a new agreement with the HSE to support public hospitals during the current Covid surge.

Frontline healthcare staff in private hospitals in Dublin, Galway and Limerick "urgently" need to be vaccinated against Covid-19 if they are to support the national response and take patients from public hospitals.

As a new agreement between the HSE and private hospitals kicked in over the weekend to deal with a surge in infections and hospitalisations, concerns have been raised over the availability of Covid-19 vaccines for some private hospital facilities.