IRELAND
Irish Independent
Maeve Sheehan and Catherine Devine
April 25 2017
The Minister for Health, Simon Harris, has released the full agreement between St Vincent’s Healthcare Group and the National Maternity Hospital.
The full statement can be found here .
Details of the agreement were first revealed in the Sunday Independent.
The agreement between the two hospitals spells out how the independence of the maternity hospital will be protected through a new Designated Activity Company providing maternity services.
The company will be a 100pc subsidary of St Vincent’s Healthcare Group. However the group’s ownership is conditional on allowing the State a ‘golden share’ in the company to protect its independence, and a ‘lien’, so that it cannot be used as collateral against loans or sold.
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