The HSE Surgical Hub South Dublin, designed to reduce patient waiting times and lists, was officially opened today.
The hub is located on the Mount Carmel Community Hospital site, and is under the governance of St James’s Hospital. It consists of four theatres. According to the HSE, it will deliver additional capacity to support scheduled care for day cases and reduce waiting lists. The Executive said this would enable the separation of scheduled and unscheduled care and allow existing acute capacity to support urgent and more complex procedures in south Dublin.
The first scheduled procedure is due to take place on Tuesday, 18 February.
The hub aims to deliver 10,000-day case procedures annually.
“I am determined to drive down waiting times and these new hubs will have an important role to play in helping to do just that,” Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said today on the opening.
Mr Bernard Gloster, HSE CEO, said that by moving day case procedures to the surgical hubs, hospitals around the country “will have greater capacity” for patients who require emergency and more complex care.
“A central part of our year-round urgent and emergency care planning is to free up capacity in the hospital system to help with patient flow, but this can be at the expense of non-urgent care.
“The surgical hubs now remove that barrier to patient care and will enable us to work through our waiting lists and reduce waiting times.”
Ms Kate Killeen White, Regional Executive Officer HSE Dublin and Midlands said, she was pleased for the hub to open under the governance of St James’s Hospital, “whose team are leading on both innovative and bespoke solutions for the delivery of the surgical hub model of care for the benefit of the south Dublin region”.
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