A senior HSE official is understood to be investigating a claim that a psychiatric patient exhibiting ‘challenging behaviour’ at University Hospital Galway was restrained with handcuffs...
University Hospital Galway (UHG) is owed almost €600,000 in unpaid Emergency Department (ED) charges, new figures reveal. Saolta, the group that manages the city hospital, has...
Colleagues were so concerned about the clinical abilities of a doctor at University Hospital Galway that they questioned whether he was actually a registered medical practitioner,...
Over 7,600 patients were treated on trolleys in Galway’s public hospitals during 2015, according to figures released by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation. Portiuncula had...
Mice and silverfish in the kitchens; rats in a store room; mice and ants in the Emergency Department; insects in the maternity ward and psychiatric unit...
Official complaints made about the Emergency Department of University Hospital Galway (UHG) have more than doubled in a year, new figures reveal. The ED at UHG...
Two minor hurlers from the Oranmore area were hospitalised with a suspected meningitis infection. Two of the teenagers – who were recently crowned minor B county...
Some 17 surgeries were postponed at Galway city’s main public hospital on Tuesday, despite nurses’ deferring planned strike action at the West’s largest Emergency Department. Management at...
