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flag HSE negotiates patient transfers from overcrowded UHL to Bon Secours Limerick to ease crisis.

flag The Health Service Executive (HSE) is negotiating with Bon Secours Hospital Limerick, a €213 million private facility opened in September 2024, to transfer patients from University Hospital Limerick (UHL) during peak demand to ease chronic overcrowding. flag UHL, the only 24-hour emergency department serving over 400,000 people across multiple counties, continues to face severe bed shortages, with admitted patients often waiting on trolleys. flag Despite recent expansions, including a new 96-bed unit, overcrowding persists. flag The HSE and Bon Secours are finalizing an agreement to transfer appropriate patients, with an understanding expected soon. flag This move supports broader government-backed plans to address the crisis, including expanding UHL’s site, developing a second campus under shared governance, or building a new Model 3 hospital with an emergency department in the mid-west.

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