Cabinet backs new model four hospital for Mid-West
HOPES of building a new hospital in Clare have been brought back to life with the Minister for Health confirming the Mid-West will have a new hospital built within the next ten to fifteen years.
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Host of suitable sites identified in Clare for construction of new hospital
*Cllr Rita McInerney outside the injury unit at Ennis Hospital. Photograph: Eugene McCafferty. A HOST of suitable sites have been put forward by Clare County Council to the HSE as potential locations for a new hospital in the county.
Health Minister invited to visit West Clare to see first-hand the difficulties on accessing emergency care
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 AN INVITATION has been issued to the Health Minister to visit West Clare to gain a better understanding on the need to build a new hospital in Co …
More than 350 patients presented to UHL emergency department in 24 hours
UNPRECEDENTED numbers of patients are presenting at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) this week.
Health Minister says emergency department for Clare will be reviewed in 2026
*Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG) in the Seanad. POTENTIAL for building a second emergency department in the Mid-West will be reviewed next year, the Minister for Health has said.
No new hospital for Ennis
*Packed corridors at UHL. NO NEW hospital will be built in Ennis and instead a new site in close proximity to University Hospital Limerick (UHL) will be constructed, as per new plans unveiled by the Minister for Health.
Tánaiste says another hospital is needed in Mid-West & that Ennis has been ‘under-utilised’
*Tánaiste Simon Harris is welcomed to Kilkishen by Clare TD, Joe Cooney (FG) along with Cllr Pat Burke (FG) and Cllr Conor Ryan (FG). Photograph: Kevin Donovan. TÁNAISTE, Simon Harris (FG) has said an additional hospital facility is needed in the Mid-West region, weeks before the Health Minister is to issue recommendations on actions to …
Mid-West Oireachtas members take united stance following HIQA review
*Mid-West Oireachtas members at a meeting in Leinster House. A UNITED front has been mounted by politicians in the Mid-West in views expressed to the Minister for Health on future emergency healthcare services in the region.
Narrative verdict recorded at inquest into death of Shannon woman following breach in HSE sepsis protocol at UHL
A Shannon woman who was flagged at two Limerick hospitals for “sepsis”, but who was not given the prescribed medication in time, died from cardiac respiratory failure, a day after suffering a miscarriage, her inquest has heard.
Shannon woman’s family ‘haunted’ by fear she did not receive medication in time
*Leona Cusack. A young Shannon woman’s family are “haunted” by the fear that her death, a day after suffering a miscarriage, could have been prevented if she had received sepsis medication faster, her inquest heard.