Second COVID-19 Booster Doses now available
People aged 65 years and over are now eligible for their second COVID-19 booster vaccine, those aged 12 years and older with a weak immune system can also get their second booster when it is due.
UL Hospitals Group
Making Ennis ‘elective-only’ hospital will ease pressure on UHL
*Photograph: Sean Curtin / True Media MAKING ENNIS an elective-only hospital has been heralded as a potential solution to ease massive overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick.
New injury unit costing just shy of €2m opens at Ennis Hospital
From left: Clinical Nurse Manager (CNM2) Jo Crowe and Staff Nurse Fiona Tubridy pictured in the nurses’ station of the new Injury Unit in Ennis Hospital. DOORS HAVE OPENED of the new injury unit at Ennis Hospital which was built at a cost of just under €2m.
€9.95m theatre upgrade approved for Ennis Hospital
APPROVAL for a €9.95m theatre upgrade at Ennis Hospital has been confirmed by the HSE.
Almost all elective activity at Ennis Hospital deferred
SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS in elective care at hospitals in the Mid-West remain in place.
Calls for upgrade of Ennis Hospital must be properly addressed
DISAPPOINTMENT HAS BEEN EXPRESSED by the Mid-West Hospital Campaign over the absence of UL Hospitals Group’s CEO from Tuesday’s Regional Health Forum meeting which resulted in the deferral of a motion relating to Ennis hospital.
HSE decision not to provide additional ICU or acute hospital beds in Mid-West brandished ‘disgraceful’
No new acute, sub-acute or ICU beds will be opened in the Midwest in 2022, new data from the HSE has revealed.
Visitor ban in place at UHL following COVID-19 & flu outbreaks
FLU and COVID-19 outbreaks have prompted management of University Hospital Limerick to close to visitors.
HIQA confirm inspection of UHL & Minister Donnelly says ongoing overcrowding unfair to patients & staff
*Minister Stephen Donnelly during his visit to UHL. HIQA have confirmed it is to undertake inspections of the emergency department at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) while the Minister for Health has said more emergency medical doctors are needed at the Dooradoyle facility.
More services for Ennis Hospital or bigger staff numbers at UHL the decision for Donnelly
*Stephen Donnelly speaking to members of the media including Páraic McMahon (The Clare Echo) and Dan Danaher (The Clare Champion). IN ORDER to tackle ongoing overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick (UHL), a decision on whether to equip hospitals such as Ennis or Nenagh with more services or hire more staff to UHL will have to …