Fresh setback for University Hospital Limerick as report into need for second emergency department delayed

Social Democrats’ Pádraig Rice said the news was ‘very disappointing’, with people in the Mid-West still losing out, in what he called a ‘postcode lottery’

The Hiqa report had been due out in May. Above, University Hospital Limerick

Eilish O'Regan

A major report on overcrowding in University Hospital Limerick (UHL) is to be delayed until the autumn, in yet another health setback for the region.

The report will be crucial in deciding whether the hospital should be supported by a second emergency department in the Mid-West to relieve its trolley crisis