The HSE is reportedly planning to move all acute services in the southern region to just one hospital in Cork city.

Reports this morning say an unpublished HSE report is recommending that all acute services in Cork and Kerry be transferred to Cork University Hospital over the next five or six years.

The plan would affect the Mercy University Hospital, the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, Mallow and Bantry General Hospitals and Kerry General Hospital.
HSE 'planning to centralise acute services at CUH' | BreakingNews.ie

People living in Cork and Kerry have woken up to worrying news that the HSE plan to close acute services at five excellent local hospitals and transfer all services to the scandal ridden "center of excellence" in Cork University Hospital.

The HSE's criteria for defining what is a centre of excellence remains a mystery.

Perhaps it is the hospitals with most cases of misdiagnosis?


Reminder:

THE HEALTH authorities were rocked last night by a fresh cancer misdiagnosis scandal -- in which up to 15 people may have been wrongly given the all-clear for cancer at [COLOR=#306294]Cork University Hospital[/COLOR].
Fresh cancer misdiagnosis scare rocks Health chiefs - Latest News, Health - Independent.ie

Once-off error blamed for Rebecca O'Malley misdiagnosis - Ireland, Breaking News - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk