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17/09/2009
Two Hospitals To Lose A&E
Both Whiteabbey and the Mid-Ulster hospital in Magherafelt look likely to lose their Accident & Emergency facilities.
According to BBC Radio Ulster today, it is understood the hospitals will have acute services withdrawn and will provide only localised facilities.
The move is part of efficiency savings being introduced by the Northern Trust.
Instead, management want to develop Antrim Area Hospital to take work from suburban Whiteabbey, in Newtownabbey and for the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine to be the main acute services site covering Mid-Ulster.
Already services at Whiteabbey - just north of Belfast - has seen accident and emergency services cut to be provided from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Losing local facilities for the areas concerned will be a major blow.
(BMcC/GK)
According to BBC Radio Ulster today, it is understood the hospitals will have acute services withdrawn and will provide only localised facilities.
The move is part of efficiency savings being introduced by the Northern Trust.
Instead, management want to develop Antrim Area Hospital to take work from suburban Whiteabbey, in Newtownabbey and for the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine to be the main acute services site covering Mid-Ulster.
Already services at Whiteabbey - just north of Belfast - has seen accident and emergency services cut to be provided from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Losing local facilities for the areas concerned will be a major blow.
(BMcC/GK)
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