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Air ambulance helicopter landing at the Mater Hospital helipad during an aeromedical simulation in October 2019. Photo: Peter Doyle
Hospital consultant crisis could ground Major Trauma Services plan, IHCA warns
‘Government needs to recruit and retain more emergency medicine specialists’
Prof Alan Irvine, IHCA
Plans to expand Major Trauma Services across Irish hospitals won’t get off the ground unless the Government tackles the consultant and recruitment crisis, the country’s leading doctors have warned.
This week it was announced that Dublin’s Mater Misericordiae Hospital has been earmarked as the Major Trauma Centre for the Central Network.