Carlow has highest rate of hospital admissions for heart failure

Carlow has the highest rate of hospital admission for heart failure.

A report from the Department of Health has found that overall the number of people being admitted to hospital with heart failure has decreased between 2006 and 2015.

However, in Carlow between 2013 and 2015 the rate of hospitalisations was 283 per 100,000 population – the highest in the country.

This accounts for 301 people.

Meanwhile in Kilkenny the number of patients admitted was just slightly higher at 331, but the overall rate was much lower – amongst the lowest in the country.