Support team formed to try ease overcrowding crisis at UHL

The team is to begin work immediately and is expected to work for four weeks on actions targeting overcrowding at UHL

University Hospital Limerick.

A support team has been formed to attempt to ease the overcrowding crisis at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) and in the Mid-West region, the Health Minister and HSE chief announced on Tuesday.

The team includes former president of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine Dr Fergal Hickey, HSE national director of acute hospitals and former manager at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) Grace Rothwell as well as the Director of Nursing and Integration at UHW Orla Kavanagh.