The Health Service Executive has said some services at five of its six acute hospitals in Cork and Kerry will be curtailed under a plan to centralise the treatment of patients who need complex acute care at Cork University Hospital.But the HSE has given a commitment that all six of the region's acute hospitals will remain open providing on-going emergency medical care, following what it describes as a fundamental restructuring of hospital services. RTE News reports that the HSE has been working on this re-structuring of the six acute hospitals in Cork and Kerry for the past three years and this morning it published a plan which it says will take up to six years to implement.
The executive intends to centralise the treatment of patients who need complex acute care at Cork University Hospital. All five of the other hospitals - the Mercy University Hospital and the South Infirmary Victoria in Cork City; Mallow Hospital in North Cork and Bantry in West Cork, along with Kerry General Hospital - will remain open providing ongoing emergency medical care.
