The Dublin Midlands Hospital Group has released a statement around the launch of their Strategic Development Plan on Thursday.
The group say: “The Dublin Midlands Hospital Group (DMHG) will publish its high level strategy for the 7 hospitals within the Group on Thursday, laying out a blueprint for the development of services within the Group up to 2023.
“Its focus is on developing the Group and its hospitals further, with an emphasis on improving access for patients, and further collaboration with the Group’s academic partner, Trinity College Dublin.
“The strategy is based on current Department of Health policies, HIQA Better Safer Healthcare Standards and HSE values and principles.
“The DMHG 2018-2023 Strategic Plan is not related to the proposed Action Plan for Portlaoise, which remains under consideration by the Minister for Health for any future policy decision.”
The statement comes after the Portlaoise Hospital Action Committee called for a mass protest to take place this Thursday.
They believed that the report by Dr Susan O’Reilly would be presented on Thursday and called for a mass protest.
Committee PRO, Eimear Holland, said: “This report is flawed. We know it. The people know it. The minister knows it. As such, it cannot be launched.
“If launch is not cancelled, we the Hospital Action Committee are calling upon the people of Laois and surrounding areas to stage a mass protest outside ‘Trinity’s Biomedical Sciences Institute’ on Pearse Street, on Thursday at 10am”. She went in to say “if needs be, we will bring Dublin to a standstill!”.
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