Johnston family to meet Health Minister & HSE CEO to seek statutory inquiry into Aoife’s death
AOIFE JOHNSTON’s family are to hold their first meeting with Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll McNeill (FG) today (Thursday).
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An Bord Pleanála push back deadline to show St Flannan’s green space can accommodate €25m community hospital
*Staff at St Flannan’s College have objected to the development. The Health Service Executive (HSE) has suffered a fresh setback in its plans to advance its contentious €25m community hospital on diocesan-owned green space at St Flannan’s College.
Clare councillors want HSE to officially recognise FASD
Tristan Casson-Rennie Chief Executive Officer FASD Ireland. Photograph: Natasha Barton. ONE OF Clare’s newest councillors is leading the campaign to have Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FASD) officially recognised by the HSE.
HSE given deadline over planned €25m hospitals for lands at St Flannan’s College
*Teachers at St Flannan’s College where the site is earmarked for. AN BORD PLEANÁLA has given the HSE a deadline of later this month to confirm that there is Uisce Éireann capacity to accommodate its contentious plan for a €25m community hospital on diocesan-owned green space at St Flannan’s college.
Spike in flu leads to introduction of visitor restrictions in local hospitals
VISITING RESTRICTIONS are to be implemented across all of UL Hospital Group’s hospitals following a spike in hospitalisations of persons with the flu.
‘Horrendous’ system of failing to fast-track medical cards slammed by breast cancer survivor
*Cllr Antoinette Baker Bashua (FF). Photograph: Eamon Ward AN ENNIS breast cancer survivor has made an emotional plea for the HSE to issue patients with “critical illnesses” to be allocated a medical card.
Judge awards €10,000 compo to Tubber hospital attendant for injury from used COVID-19 vaccination needle
*Photograph: Sean Curtin / True Media A JUDGE has awarded a retired HSE multi-task hospital attendant €10,000 compensation for an injury sustained from a used COVID-19 vaccination needle stick to a middle finger.
‘The difference it would make to us as a family is unimaginable’ – Whitegate mother leads fight for respite house in East Clare
*Emma and Anne Malone in Whitegate. Photograph: Ruth Griffin A WHITEGATE mother of four is pleading with Clare’s elected TDs to fight for a respite house to be opened in East Clare.
Senator calls for statutory enquiry into death of Aoife Johnston to bring closure to her family
A CLARE Senator has called for the establishment of a statutory enquiry “to bring closure to the family of Aoife Johnston and establish the true facts of the night” that led to her tragic death in University Hospital Limerick.
Aoife’s death was ‘almost certainly avoidable’ report finds
*Aoife Johnston. SHANNON teenager Aoife Johnston’s death was “almost certainly avoidable,” a new report has found.