Patients are at serious risk of infection in almost half the hospitals tested for hygiene by the State’s health watchdog, new reports reveal. Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) inspectors found that Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown, Dublin, Portiuncula Hospital in…
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Patients at serious risk of infection in six hospitals, health watchdog audit reveals
Tagged with: Infection
Posted in Cavan, Connolly, Coombe, Hiqa, Hospitals/Clinics, Mayo General, Mercy University, Midwest, Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Patients, Portiuncula, Roscommon, South Tipperary, St Luke's Kilkenny
Posted in Cavan, Connolly, Coombe, Hiqa, Hospitals/Clinics, Mayo General, Mercy University, Midwest, Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Patients, Portiuncula, Roscommon, South Tipperary, St Luke's Kilkenny
Patients moved to private care home in cutback
PATIENTS were forced to move to a private nursing home because a hospital could not afford to keep a surgical ward open, the Irish Independent has learned. Four patients at Roscommon Hospital were sent to Clover Hill Nursing Home in…
Roscommon hospital ‘busier now’ after downgrade, says local TD
Much of the negative publicity about Roscommon County Hospital was incorrect, said local Fine Gael TD Frank Feighan. “Nearly two years on from when it was downgraded, the hospital is busier now. Before one had to wait three to six…
Merge hospitals into new administrative groups
The HSE has been ordered to merge hospitals into new administrative groups with a single budget and a staff ceiling as part of plans to cut costs, high-level administration, and patient waiting times. Since January, University Hospital Galway, Merlin Park…
Tagged with: Management, Reconfiguration
Posted in Galway, Hospitals/Clinics, Merlin Park, Portiuncula, Roscommon
Posted in Galway, Hospitals/Clinics, Merlin Park, Portiuncula, Roscommon
Data used to shut Roscommon hospital unit is challenged
DATA USED to support the closure of Roscommon hospital’s emergency unit has been challenged by Senator John Crown, a cancer specialist. Dr Crown said that the Government had maintained official data had shown there was a 25 per cent mortality…
Hospitals’ chief named
(From Times >) MINISTER FOR Health James Reilly announced last night that Galway University Hospital (incorporating Merlin Park Hospital) together with Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, and Roscommon General Hospital were to be placed within a single management structure led by a…
Roscommon’s expanded day services ‘to cut waiting lists’
HSE WEST says its new plans for expanded day services at Roscommon County Hospital will serve a wider catchment area and help to reduce waiting lists in the region. A new endoscopy unit and specialities in maxillofacial surgery, rheumatology and…
Roscommon still waiting on advanced paramedics
Only one additional advanced paramedic trained to administer life-saving treatment has been deployed in Roscommon since the hospital’s emergency department was closed last month. (Business Post) >>>
Posted in Auxillary services, Roscommon
Only one patient a night has used Roscommon’s urgent care unit
AN AVERAGE of just over one patient a night has visited a temporary out-of-hours service set up in Roscommon Hospital to cushion the blow of the withdrawal of its accident and emergency unit. (Independent) >>>
Posted in Roscommon
Hospital plans mired in conflicting claims and political worries
At a recent media briefing, Dr Garry Courtney, co-lead of the acute medicine programme, said in future there would be smaller Model 2 hospitals. He explained that this would mean that some medical patients, such as patients with heart attacks…
Doctor may sue minister over hospital figures
Some consultants at the hospital have backed the HSE’s move to close the emergency department on safety grounds. However, Oliver Clinton, a consultant surgeon at Roscommon County Hospital, said that he believed the decision to close the emergency department at…
Posted in Medicolegal, Roscommon
Hiqa backs closure of unit at Roscommon
“The authority recognises and understands the difficulties in bringing about these changes,” Hiqa said in a statement. “However, further procrastination and delay is not acceptable and can put patients’ lives and safety at risk.” In total, there are 10 smaller…
Minister rejects misleading data claim on hospital mortality rates
MINISTER FOR Health James Reilly has rejected claims that he used misleading figures about mortality rates at Roscommon County Hospital to support the Coalition’s decision to downgrade the hospital’s A&E unit. The Roscommon Hospital Action Committee made the accusation yesterday…
Cliodhna Donnelly on Roscommon A&E
Sir, – To say that an out-of-hours emergency skeleton service for Roscommon, to treat critically ill patients, is comparable to a fully equipped hospital already available in the area is outrageous. I worked as a medical doctor on the wards…
Liam McMullin on Roscommon A&E
[Letter to Times >>>] Sir, – It’s a bit rich to have to listen to Micheál Martin’s pseudo-righteousness in his denunciation of Enda Kenny’s betrayal of Roscommon. I stood beside the then minister of health on the steps of Monaghan…
HSE says A&E closure has not had significant impact on other hospitals
THE HSE has said that no significant delays arose yesterday following the closure of the accident and emergency department at Roscommon County Hospital. It also denied that the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar had closed its emergency department yesterday due…
Roscommon: the expert diagnosis
There is no case to be made for retaining the emergency department at Roscommon Hospital, according to the head of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine (IAEM). Dr Fergal Hickey, president of the IAEM, said all the clinical evidence available…
Posted in Roscommon
Roscommon A&E closure could turn out to be for the good
We are told the registrar who is overseeing the urgent care centre today was already working in Roscommon hospital. The doctor, who takes over tonight as part of a month-long arrangement until GPs agree to set up a co-op on…
