Chaos in Galway’s hospitals, manifesting itself in unsafe and chronic overcrowding of Emergency Departments – at UHG and Portiuncula – can be eased with more beds,...
Health Minister Simon Harris has indicated that he is willing to consider the use of Merlin Park Hospital to provide a solution to Galway’s ongoing health...
Nurses have called in the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) claiming lives are at risk as the emergency department at University Hospital Galway enters its seventh...
Two local TDs pleaded with Acting Health Minister Leo Varadkar in the Dáil this week to urgently move University Hospital Galway to Merlin Park on a...
Saolta University Healthcare Group has been accused of dishonesty after internal documents emerged confirming that no additional bed capacity will result from the development of a...
An overcrowding crisis this week at University Hospital Galway (UHG) – that led to the deferral of ‘non-urgent’ elective procedures – will be a recurring problem...
The Emergency Department at Galway University Hospital has been on Code Red or Black – the highest status in its new escalation policy – continuously for...
CONDITIONS at the ED (Emergency Department) unit of University Hospital Galway have been described as ‘horrendous’ over the past ten days, by a senior nurses representative...
