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Mater-Beaumont neurosurgical service model ‘not finalised’

By David Lynch - 27th Jan 2025

neurosurgical service model

A single integrated model for neurosurgery delivery between the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital (MMUH) and Beaumont Hospital in Dublin has not been finalised, this newspaper has learned.

The national neurosurgical centre is based at Beaumont Hospital. The MMUH was designated as the major trauma centre (MTC) for the central trauma network in April 2021.

In May 2024, the HSE established an integrated neurosurgical delivery service group involving representatives from both hospitals. An Executive spokesperson told the Medical Independent the group’s deliberations are “ongoing”. 

The group aims “to deliver a definitive plan to implement a single integrated model of neurosurgical service delivery between the Mater MTC and Beaumont Hospital”.

During the current phase of the development of major trauma services at the MMUH, head-injured patients requiring neurosurgery are managed at Beaumont Hospital.

“Two consultant neurosurgeons have been appointed at the Mater Hospital who help facilitate the timely transfer of patients that need operative intervention between the hospitals [and] the management of appropriate patients in the Mater Hospital that do not need an operation,” stated the HSE spokesperson.

The consultants will also play a vital role in determining the finalised model of care for traumatic brain injury in the central trauma network, stated the spokesperson. This model of care “remains to be fully determined”.

In 2022, clinical representatives from the MMUH and Beaumont considered a “number of options for the delivery of the service to head-injured patients”.

At that time, it was agreed that the MMUH and Beaumont would continue to work collaboratively in the management of patients with head injuries.

Separately, the HSE National Service Plan 2025 has committed to “continued development” of the MTCs at the MMUH and Cork University Hospital. Planned capital projects associated with the national trauma programme include “emergency department trauma resuscitation bays and [a] CT scanner in both hospitals and commencement of construction of two dedicated trauma theatres and a diagnostic imaging suite at the MMUH”.

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