HSE has 24 staff based in former Carrick-on-Suir hospital

There are 24 HSE clinical and administrative staff currently based at the former St Brigid’s Hospital building, the Oireachtas Committee on Public Petitions hearing was told.

South East Community Healthcare Chief Officer Kate Killeen-White said it was an administrative base for staff and the delivery of services in the adjacent Primary Care Centre.

The Community Healthcare Network Management team and GP lead are based in the building while the region’s Chronic Disease Management team “access St Brigid’s as an administrative base and outreach to other sites across south Tipperary”.

There are 24.2 wholetime equivalent posts based there. They include two diabetes nurses, two cardiac nurses, two senior dietitians, a respiratory illness nurse, an enhanced senior community nurse, three physiotherapists, three health promotion staff, an infection control nurse and one InterRAI staff. The remainder are administration and management staff.