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There are more than 46,000 people currently on waiting lists for outpatient appointments at Galway University Hospitals but that figure is dropping every week, the HSE has said in a statement.

With three public holidays in the next week, Midoc, the out-of-hours emergency GP service for the Midland region, has announced its holiday hours, and has asked potential patients to be extra mindful the service is only for patients who require urgent GP medical care.

I think everyone is breathing a sigh of relief knowing that all the former residents of the Avondale Nursing Home in Callan have now been moved to new facilities. One can only hope that the care that they are receiving in their new homes is of a high quality and that they are happy in their new environment.

A damning report has highlighted the extent of the “excessive and unsafe waiting times” for referrals to hospital outpatient services, with Galway again named and shamed as having the longest wait in the country.

The family of a psychiatrically ill patient who had to queue for hours at University Hospital Galway’s A&E department before being admitted were “very upset” at what they termed the change in admission policy for such patients, according to the chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum.

Tackling lengthy outpatient waiting lists and overcrowding at University Hospital Galway must be two of the top priorities of the incoming Fine Gael/Labour Government, the chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum said this week.

Some 4,047 of Kilkenny’s longest waiting public patients have now benefited from faster treatment through the work of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF).

The HSE West’s plan to cut temporary staff’s working hours as part of its cost cutting measures could have implications for patient safety, it was claimed this week.

The Integrated Discharge Planning brochure, which was developed by staff from Mayo General Hospital and the HSE’s Primary, Community and Continuing Care services in Mayo, is aimed at making the discharge process for patients a seamless transition from one stage of care to the next, and is part of the HSE’s national Code of Practice for Integrated Discharge Planning.

More than 19,000 of Galway’s longest waiting public patients have benefited from faster treatment through the work of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF), a Government initiative designed to cut hospital waiting lists by offering public patients treatment in private hospitals.