Tag Archives: Portlaoise Report

The HSE is not a learning organisation, HIQA has found, and it does not place quality and safety issues high enough on its agenda, reports Gary Culliton.

The HSE failed to resource Portlaoise Hospital sufficiently and to ensure governance arrangements that could “safely deliver the range of acute services to patients presenting for care 24 hours a day seven days a week in a Model Three hospital”, the IHCA has said.