High hopes for hotel hospital cases

HSE chief Prof Brendan Drumm thinks “putting patients up in hotels instead of hospitals is the way forward for the health service” (Irish Examiner, September 21).

Surely every right-thinking person must agree with him? With a few minor tweaks, this could be the answer to the health service’s problems.

A hotel by definition is a “commercial establishment providing lodging and meals” while a hospital is “an institution for the care of the sick”.