Recommendations for tackling UHL overcrowding expected 'within days'

Regional executive officer for HSE Mid-West Sandra Broderick was asked 'to revert within days as to her view on how best to take the recommendations into action in the short term'

Crisis team was announced on April 30 as part of responses to chronic levels of overcrowding highlighted during two inquests and a court hearing earlier this year.

Recommendations for tackling overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick by a specialist three-person team are now being assessed by the most senior HSE official in the region.

Newly appointed regional executive officer for HSE Mid-West Sandra Broderick is expected to say “within days” how these can be best applied in the hospital system and community services, the HSE said.