UHL Support Team Report 2024

Under the auspices of the Performance and Accountability Framework, the CEO of the HSE commissioned the Support Team to undertake a review over a 4 week period, to support de-escalation of the site and, in turn, identify any additional improvement actions for inclusion in University Hospital Limerick’s "Quality Improvement Plan" for Urgent and Emergency Care.

The Support Team reviewed the day-to-day functioning of the UHL site and also that of the Model 2 sites and examined the relationship between the Acute Hospital (UHL) and the MidWest Community Healthcare Organisation (CHO3).

This document sets out high-level findings of the review (pages 2-5), a proposal to facilitate the de-escalation of the UHL site (pages 6-7) together with 10 key actions (pages 8-9) for inclusion in the Improvement Plan for ‘Urgent & Emergency Care’ in UHL.