Sir, – I was more than a little discombobulated on March 20th, as I listened to a radio report that Minister for Health Dr James Reilly claimed the number of patients awaiting a hospital bed from an emergency room trolley…
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Anger over reports of hospital budget cuts of 2% or more
Opposition politicians have reacted angrily to a report that a number of hospitals including St James’s, St Vincent’s and Dublin’s two children’s hospitals will experience budget cuts of 2 per cent or more this year. (Times) >
Hospital car-park charges are four times higher than two years ago
DAILY parking charges at some hospitals are now up to four times more expensive than they were two years ago, new figures reveal. Parking hikes, which hit patients, visitors and staff, have been imposed in most hospitals in a bid…
Posted in Beaumont, Connolly, Drogheda, Galway, Kerry, Limerick, Patients, St Vincents, Waterford Regional
Orla Tinsley: We CF patients need to focus on living
The “where possible” rooms are not clustered together on a floor where staff are trained in CF. There is no exercise equipment in these unspecified rooms in the 100-bed building. This week I arrived seeking treatment for infection and was…
‘Cattle would be treated better’, says CF sufferer
Shaunagh Morrissey, from Cashel, Co Tipperary, underwent a liver transplant in August and currently has a chest infection. However, she is refusing to go to St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin because all the CF beds are full and she does…
‘They removed my stomach by mistake’
ALAN O’Gorman has had to endure living without a stomach for over a decade after doctors mistook him for another patient. The 31-year-old Dubliner was plunged into a nightmare when he was incorrectly told he had stomach cancer after his…
John Crown on cystic fibrosis unit
Seanad leader Maurice Cummins (FG) refused to continue making a reply to concerns about the adequacy of cystic fibrosis treatment facilities after John Crown (Ind) asked which public relations firm “issued this statement” on behalf of St Vincent’s hospital. Earlier,…
Orla Tinsley on disregard for CF sufferers
The news that people with cystic fibrosis cannot access single en suite rooms at Ireland’s first dedicated adult CF centre, at St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin, is not surprising. When I arrived seeking treatment on Tuesday and was offered a…
Hospital turns away five cystic fibrosis patients
THE main treatment centre for cystic fibrosis has been forced to turn away patients in need of treatment for potentially life-threatening infections. Five ill patients with the disease had to wait at home yesterday morning because of a lack of beds at…
TD says patients outside Dublin denied treatment
PATIENTS FROM outside Dublin were being refused treatment in the capital’s hospitals because they were not living in the catchment area, Independent Donegal South West TD Thomas Pringle claimed. He said one young Donegal woman had been turned down for…
Posted in Patients, St Vincents
New cystic fibrosis unit won’t help enough patients, writes Orla Tinsley
The St Vincent’s Hospital unit, designed to serve not just those with CF but groups including oncology patients and other immune-suppressed people, now looks like it will take some unspecified amount of time to kit out, despite the June date.…
HSE €53m over-budget by end of February
Tallaght and Beaumont hospitals had overruns of about €1.7 million each while St Vincent’s hospital had a deficit of €1.3 million, with the figure for St James’s Hospital at about €1 million. (Times) >
Patients with cystic fibrosis wait for beds
SEVEN CYSTIC fibrosis patients were forced to remain at home while waiting for a bed in a Dublin hospital because of fears of cross- infection in its overcrowded emergency room. Independent Dublin North Central TD Finian McGrath told the Dáil…
Beaumont and St Vincent’s hospitals in ‘winter virus’ appeal
Beaumont and St Vincent’s hospitals said the virus had already affected some 100 staff and patients. A spokesman for Beaumont hospital said some 40 beds were unavailable as a result of quarantine arrangements put in place to deal with the…
St Vincent’s and Mater to merge
The Mater and St Vincent’s University Hospital, have agreed to come together under a joint governance structure from January 2013. The new structure will facilitate rapid and effective transfer of research ideas into clinical practice across the two hospital sites.…
Tagged with: Management
Posted in Beaumont, Connolly, Hospitals/Clinics, Mater Dublin, Research, St Vincents
Posted in Beaumont, Connolly, Hospitals/Clinics, Mater Dublin, Research, St Vincents
Moves to cut numbers on hospital trolleys under way
Funding of €725,710 will be provided for a range of measures to tackle the lengthy waiting times for patients on trolleys at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. Measures agreed with the hospital to reduce trolley waiting times include the opening…
Tagged with: Trolleys
Posted in Beaumont, Cork University, Drogheda, Galway, Loughlinstown, Louth County, Mater Dublin, Navan, St Vincents, Tallaght
Posted in Beaumont, Cork University, Drogheda, Galway, Loughlinstown, Louth County, Mater Dublin, Navan, St Vincents, Tallaght
Deadly strain of antibiotic-resistant superbug detected
Dr Deirdre O’Brien, consultant clinical microbiologist at St Vincent’s, said the superbug fell into the category Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), a group of well-known bacteria, including E coli, that have developed resistance to powerful antibiotics. “It is much the same…
