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More than 8,914 patients of University Hospital Galway (UHG) and 121,000 patients nationally were without a bed in 2023, making it the worst year for hospital overcrowding on record according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives organisation (INMO).

Plans are in the pipeline to build a new 40 bed community nursing unit in Clifden. A planning application has been submitted by the HSE's Community Healthcare West (CHW) organisation to the Galway County Council regarding the proposed facility.

Constituent Sinn Féin Deputy, Sorca Clarke, has called on local government Deputies Robert Troy, Peter Burke and Joe Flaherty, to start listening to people with disabilities and provide vital respite services they need.

A total of 5,327 people walked out of emergency departments in Galway's public hospitals last year without being assessed.

Local Sinn Féin constituency representative, Deputy Sorca Clarke, has called on her Dáil Éireann colleagues to back the party’s motion to stop nurses and midwives being forced to emigrate due to the cost of living and housing crises.

Week III

Public Health Nurse Grainne Ní Lochlainn from Connemara is celebrating this week after being named Galway’s Most Inspirational Person at this year’s Gala Retail Inspiration Awards with Virgin Media.

Roscommon University Hospital is delighted to announce that Patricia Larkin has recently been appointed as a Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner (RANP) in Emergency Nursing at Roscommon Injury Unit.

Siobhan Bell recently stepped down as Person-in-Charge (PIC) after 16 years at Sonas Nursing Home Athlone - a valued member of Sonas, Siobhan is now working as CNM at Sonas Athlone.

Three additional neurology nurses will be hired at UHG this year, a move one leading Galway politician said was “a significant step in the right direction” for the specialty at the hospital.