The HSE has employed an additional 43 staff at its Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick in the first three months of the year in spite of a staff ceiling being in place.According to figures from the HSE published in the Irish Times newspaper, its acute hospital network of six hospitals in the Midwest is breaching the executive’s staff ceiling of 3,201 by 68. This has contributed to the HSE coming in over budget by 7.7 per cent for the first three months.
Figures relating to Ennis General Hospital show that the hospital was breaching its staffing levels by seven at the end of March where 291 were employed with a staff ceiling of 284.
