Crowe welcomes “common sense” decision to relocate UHL management to hospital campus

Clare’s Fianna Fáil TD, Cathal Crowe has welcomed the decision to move management at University Hospital Limerick back to the hospital campus in Dooradoyle.

“I’m delighted that common sense has prevailed and UHL management have been directed to relocate to the UHL Hospital Campus in Dooradoyle in Limerick.

“For the past couple of years, the senior management team of the UHL Group have been located in an industrial estate at an office building a couple of kilometres away from the hospital.

“I have repeatedly made the point in the Dáil that hospital management needed to be on site and it made no sense for them to be remote from the hospital working environment.

“Prior to my election to the Dáil, I worked as a primary school teacher. It would be unheard of in the world of education that a principal would be managing a school from a remote location and the same can be said for many other workplace scenarios.

“Furthermore, the Justice Frank Clarke report into the death of Aoife Johnston identified that on the night Aoife lost her life, it wasn’t clear who was in charge of the hospital.

“It makes sense for management to be on site. Only then can they have proper oversight of situations in the hospital environment and in my opinion, it will inform better decision making.”