Minister Carroll MacNeill is pictured here with Patrick O’Donovan TD Minister for Arts, Culture, Communications, Media and Sport; and with Kieran O’Donnell TD, Minister of State for Older People and Housing. Photograph: Don Moloney. HEALTH OFFICIALS and Fine Gael politicians were all smiles in Limerick on Tuesday morning as the powers that be once again …
*Friends of Ennis Hospital Chairperson, Angela Coll. ANY POTENTIAL new hospital in Co Clare must be located in the environs of the Ennis Municipal District, a public meeting on healthcare in the region has heard.
*Jessica Sheedy A YOUNG girl’s surgery at UHL leading to her death “should not have been performed,” the HSE have admitted. Jessica Sheedy (18) from Bruff, Limerick, experienced complications in May 2018 during surgery to remove a large but benign tumour from her abdomen at University Hospital Limerick (UHL). She passed away three days later …
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*University Hospital Limerick CLARE TD Donna McGettigan will chair a public meeting on the delivery of emergency healthcare services in the Mid-West. The recent report outlined three options: the increasing of capacity at UHL, the expansion of UHL to another adjacent site, and the provision of a new Model Three hospital in the Mid-West. Donna …
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*Cllr Ian Lynch (IND). A CLARE councillor has urged his colleagues to send a strong message to the Government by going Independent in the fight to get a new hospital built in the county.
Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, pictured with the Mayor of Limerick John Moran and (right) Patrick O’Donovan, Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport. Picture: Don Moloney A DECISION will be made before Christmas on whether a new hospital will be built in Ennis, the Minister for Health has confirmed.
Patrick Madden, from Castleconnell, County Limerick, meets Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and HSE CEO Bernard Gloster on Ward 9C, University Hospital Limerick, after the Minister opened the new 96-bed Block at UHL on Monday October 13th. Picture: Don Moloney A €105m 96-bed inpatient block has been officially opened by the Minister for Health, …
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OIREACHTAS members from Clare and Limerick have given their backing to a three-tier plan to expand hospital capacity in the Mid-West, following publication of HIQA’s review of urgent and emergency care services in the region.
THREE OPTIONS to improve emergency healthcare in the Mid-West have been presented to the Minister for Health by HIQA including the construction of a new model-three hospital in the region.
*Dr Catherine Peters. SENIOR MEDICS at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) have expressed confidence that their views will be taken on board for HIQA’s review into urgent and emergency care in the Mid-West.