Search Results for 'Merlin Park Regional Hospital'

University and Merlin Park hospitals are owed more than €23 million from private health insurers. And most hospital consultants are offenders and are costing the health authority millions by failing to sign off on these claims, according to one local politician.

Government "dodging the issue" of moving services from UHG to Merlin Park to solve overcrowding at the UHG Emergency Department is "unhelpful" and "the people of Galway and the west of Ireland deserve better."

Funding for a new state-of-the-art emergency department at University Hospital Galway, which could cost up to €120m, will be included in an HSE mid term capital review due to be published in June or July.

Galway Executive Skillnet provides subsidised training courses to local businesses ranging from soft skills to management development. Popular courses include front line managers/assistant managers' development programme, QQI Level 6 award, which is delivered by Leap Leadership. The next course starts in Galway on March 30.

“Urgent clarification” is needed from both the Minister for Health Simon Harris and the Health Service Executive West regarding the status of the plan for the providing “safe and appropriate accommodation” for the ambulance service at Merlin Park.

The Galway Chamber has come out in support for a new hospital for the city to be located at Merlin Park, with chamber president Conor O’Dowd calling for a "new acute hospital" that will "meet the needs" of Galway and the West.

Galway Hospice is appealing to the public to sign a petition to enable it to build a new state-of-the-art hospice on a 14 acre HSE site on the grounds of Merlin Park Hospital.

“Ad hoc planning” and the absence of “political will” stalled the development of a new public hospital for Galway for years. Dep Catherine Connolly hit out this week at both senior hospital management at University Hospital Galway over the years for failing to commit in a “planned and timely manner” to such a project and the various governments for “refusing to even contemplate” the issue.

Martin Gohery of Gohery Properties is reporting strong interest in Acorn House, a seven bedroom B&B located at Woodhaven in Melin Park, Galway.

Patients are being advised to attend outpatient appointments as normal at Galway University Hospitals (University Hospital Galway and Merlin Park Hospital) this week.