Hospital catchment areas

SATSUMA

Anyone have a link to dublin hospital catchment areas? Im specifically wondering which hospital is the ashtown catchment area.

Thanks

L1011

Catchment areas depend on the service in question, but for Ashtown it would generally be Blanchardstown Connolly.

The actual map used to determine optimal A&E catchments doesn't appear to exist online but its not followed in every case anyway.

SATSUMA

thanks,

Im currently moving house and I am seeing a consultamt in the mater and waiting for an appointment for another consultant in a different specialty.

I dont know whether i continue to see them or do i notify them of the change of address at the risk of being transferred to a different hospital? I really want to stay with my current consultant.

RobFowl

SATSUMA wrote: »

thanks,

Im currently moving house and I am seeing a consultamt in the mater and waiting for an appointment for another consultant in a different specialty.

I dont know whether i continue to see them or do i notify them of the change of address at the risk of being transferred to a different hospital? I really want to stay with my current consultant.

Letters will continue to be sent to the address they have registered, they rarely change you to a different hospital if they are already seeing you but often refuse to see new referrals from "outside" their catchments areas.

TBH Catchment areas seems to vary per hospital, per speciality and seem very arbitrary at times.

The Psychiatrists seem the only ones who have clear delineated catchment areas where its clear who covers where.

etymon

It may be that your Mater consultant also works in Connolly, depending on the specialty. You can PM me if you want to ask who.

drzhivago

SATSUMA wrote: »

Anyone have a link to dublin hospital catchment areas? Im specifically wondering which hospital is the ashtown catchment area.

Thanks

Depends on your problem and on your GP and also the hospital

Psych is vey catchment driven to the point that houses on opposite sides of street (numbers 46 and 47) may end up going to different hospitals/ Services

999 ambulances have specific geographic policies spending on patients location (if not at home) or address - this can result in patients being brought to different hospital than norm when they take ill in a friend or family members house close to their own.
Exceptions to this are

• Trauma bypass of certain hospitals
• Heart attacks to a hospital with coronary catheterisation capability
• Pre-arrangment by GP with accepting service in a hospital outside catchment

There is a good reason for this as if anyone could decide where any ambulance brought them it might leave parts of the country unserved by an ambulance while an extended journey takes place for someone who wanted to go to a dublin hospital instead of their local hospital


As regards out-patient services GPs are meant to be able to send a patient to whichever "..ologist" they wish even if the closest local hospital has a smiler ..ologist they can bypass that and send to their preferred speciaiist.. Hospials in Dublin have however been cracking down on this and writing to GPs refusing appointments -- there has been considerable debate in the Dail about tho in recent years and it has yet to be tested by someone who wishes to see Dr X, GP has written letter and hospital have refused to offer appt because outside catchment area???