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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.
Mater Hospital new Major Trauma Centre
The Mater Misericordiae Hospital, located on Dublin’s north inner city, has been announced as the Major Trauma Centre for the Central Network (April 27).
St Vincent’s University Hospital and Tallaght University Hospital, both on the southside of Dublin, have been designated as the two Trauma Units for the Central Region.
Under the ‘A Trauma System for Ireland’ report, the Trauma Policy for Ireland Steering group recommended creating a “hub and spoke” model of care with two regional trauma networks, each with a major trauma centre and trauma units.
Cork University Hospital has already been identified as the Major Trauma Centre for the South Major Trauma Network. Trauma care for children is to be provided at the new children’s hospital which is to be the paediatric Major Trauma Centre.