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.
*Angela Coll, Chairperson of Friends of Ennis Hospital (FEH). PLANNED bed blocks for University Hospital Limerick (UHL) will not alleviate overcrowding in the region and instead renewed Government focus must be placed on establishing an acute hospital in Clare with an emergency department, a local health activist group has argued.
*New analysis has been published this week. NEW ANALYSIS details that 600 additional acute beds are required in the Mid-West strengthening the call for a new hospital in the region.
*Minister Jennifer Carroll McNeill. A FURTHER delay to HIQA’s major report in potentially providing a solution to overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick has seen its publication pushed back until autumn.
*Ennis Hospital. FIGHTING to get an emergency department for Ennis represents “the opportunity of a lifetime” for politicians in the county.
A WOMAN was left waiting for an ambulance on a roadside for nearly four hours in Doonbeg this week.
*Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll McNeill (FG) on her visit to UHL. Photograph: Don Moloney NO COMMITMENTS will be made by the Minister for Health on the provision and location of a second emergency department in the Mid-West until a HIQA review is completed in May.
AOIFE JOHNSTON’s family are to hold their first meeting with Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll McNeill (FG) today (Thursday).
*Ennis Hospital was on the agenda during the meeting. MEMBERS of Friends of Ennis Hospital on Wednesday morning met with representatives from the HIQA review team where they said the provision of a model four hospital in Ennis should also include a maternity wing.