Dr Terry Hennessy – Regional Clinical Lead for Strategy and Development for the Mid West
695 admitted patients are waiting for beds in the nation’s hospitals according to today’s INMO Trolley Watch. University Hospital Limerick(UHL) remains the most overcrowded hospital in Ireland with 104 admitted patients on trolleys today. Tipperary University Hospital Clonmel reports 15 patients on trolleys while Nenagh, which does not have an Emergency Department is caring for 8 patients on trolleys today.
The HSE is appointing Dr Terry Hennessy as Regional Clinical Lead for Strategy and Development for HSE Mid West. A consultant cardiologist who has worked in the Mid West since 1998, and most recently the Clinical Director of Ennis, Nenagh, and St John’s Hospitals, Dr Hennessy now assumes responsibility for the strategic delivery of all acute and community clinical care services across the Mid West.
The HSE says Dr Hennessy’s first project as Regional Clinical Lead for Strategy and Development is leading a vital internal consultation process to gather insights on the design and delivery of local urgent and emergency care services in the region which is to inform the submission that Sandra Broderick, Regional Executive Officer, HSE Mid West, will make to HIQA’s ongoing review of urgent and emergency care in the Mid West.
HIQA is tasked with examining if a second Emergency Department is required in the Mid West and to review the findings and recommendations of the Clarke Report on the death of 16-year-old Aoife Johnston in UHL in December 2022. The Clarke Report also examined the operation of the hospital at the time of the teenager’s death when severe overcrowding caused delays for patients.
Dr Hennessy is a consultant cardiologist and will continue to see his patients in the Cath Lab alongside the commitments of his new regional role. Dr Hennessy graduated from UCD in 1989, and trained in Cardiology and General Internal Medicine at Mater Misericordiae, University Hospital Dublin and Papworth and Addenbrooks Hospital, Cambridge. He holds an MD in Medicine from UCD for studies on Stress Echocardiography, and is a Fellow of RCPI and the European Society of Cardiology.
