A CALL has been made for hospital car parking charges at University Hospital Limerick to be phased out, after income from the fees increased by 222% in four years. Figures provided by the HSE in response to a Parliamentary Question by Sinn Féin spokesperson on health David Cullinane TD showed that car parking income at …
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A NATIONAL policy proposal has been issued to the Minister for Health and senior figures in the HSE to establish enhanced urgent care centre pilot sites in Ennis and Roscommon.
A previously healthy 22-year old woman died after contracting a rare form of sepsis arising from an infection that may have been caused by a minor scratch to the woman’s leg while playing sport. In a case documented by medics at the Emergency Department (ED) at University Hospital Limerick (UHL), the young woman presented at …
*Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG) flanked by Clare TDs, Timmy Dooley (FF) and Joe Cooney (FG) outside Ennis Hospital. Photograph: Páraic McMahon. A DECISION to decide on and announce the location of a new hospital for the Mid-West region before visiting County Clare to discover the needs and challenges faced by those attempting to …
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*Photograph: Don Moloney. POLITICIANS and local media in Clare were “excluded” from Tuesday’s official announcement by the Minister for Health that a new €14m hospital would be built in Raheen.
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 …
CO CLARE has been overlooked again with a new hospital to be built in Limerick to ease the burden on University hospital Limerick (UHL).
*Ambulances at UHL. AMBULANCES in West Clare have an average turnaround time of four hours per call for emergencies to University Hospital Limerick (UHL).
*Chairperson of Friends of Ennis Hospital, Angela Coll. Photograph: Tom Micks. AN ANNOUNCEMENT is to be made before St Patrick’s Day on whether the Mid-West’s new hospital will be located in Clare, Limerick or Tipperary.
*Mhairi Barron, Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner at the Injury Unit in Ennis Hospital MORE than 53,000 patients avoided unnecessary long waits at the busy Emergency Department during 2025 by attending the three Mid West Injury Units at St John’s, Ennis and Nenagh Hospitals. The three units processed a total of 53,489 minor injuries This was …