The Roadmap is the work of Prof John Higgins, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and is the result of nearly two years of consultation and planning. What Professor Higgins and his team have done is bring the HSE, the Mercy University Hospital, the South Infirmary and Victoria University Hospital and University College Cork to agree on fundamental change in the way we organise our hospital services in Cork and Kerry and how we manage the interface between acute hospitals and primary and community services.
Some highlights of the roadmap are:
Perhaps the most far reaching development of all is that within the next six months, representatives of SIVUH, MUH, UCC and HSE will sit down to work out the basis of a formal relationship between the hospitals and the university to build an integrated university hospital network within a national framework being established by the HSE to examine the whole issue of academic healthcare centres.
A pdf copy of the full roadmap, a short summary document, and a chart showing what will take place where may be downloaded from the HSE website at: http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/newscentre/Reconfiguration%20Roadmap%20is%20published.html
