Beacon Hospital expected to sign up to revised HSE deal to provide beds for Covid surge

The hospital remained 70% empty during the last Covid-19 surge, the hospital's chief executive said. File Picture: Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie

The Beacon Hospital is expected to sign a revised agreement with the HSE to provide beds for public use.

It comes in the wake of sustained criticism of the private facility, which was the only one of Ireland's 18 private hospitals not to sign up to a 'safety net' deal which would allow the HSE access private beds in the case of Covid-19 surges.