New healthcare group to create 1,000 jobs and cut waiting lists

Plans are advancing for a €100 million series of specialist healthcare units that will create over 1,000 new jobs.

The new privately funded hospital group hopes to reduce pressure on acute beds, improve access to public healthcare and cut waiting lists for certain chronic diseases by creating a series of integrated practice units which will each employ about 260 clinicians, administrators and support staff. In five years’ time, the project will employ over ...