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New national standards aimed at protecting patients and radically improving health services in Ireland, and which will form the basis for future licensing of all healthcare facilities, have been launched by the Health Information and Quality Authority.1
The new standards follow a number of high profile failures in the health system, including a year long investigation into the running of Tallaght Hospital’s emergency department in Dublin after an inquest into the death of a patient who died in a corridor while waiting for a bed. It found Thomas Walsh was the victim of an abdication …
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