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The chapel at University Hospital will be restored to its original size next year after its reduction to accommodate safe waiting areas is no longer needed, the Regional Health Forum was told this week.

"UHG has consistently been the most and second most overcrowded hospital in the State in recent weeks, and this is with non-Covid related admissions. We need to break this cycle of overcrowding crisis at UHG.”

University Hospital Galway is looking for service user advocate(s) for the maternity department to work with hospital and community health service directors and managers to initiate change and build better maternity services for women and their families accessing care.

Visiting restrictions are once again in place in UHG, as the hospital deals with a Covid-19 outbreak, increased numbers of Covid admissions, and a significant return of non-Covid patients.

Visiting restrictions are once again in place in UHG, as the hospital deals with a Covid-19 outbreak, increased numbers of Covid admissions, and a significant return of non-Covid patients.

“Depressing”, “shocking”, and “unacceptable” are how Galway politicians have described the revelation that no date has been set for the lodging of a planning application for the new emergency department at UHG.

Despite the easing of some restrictions around maternity care, expecting parents still have questions about what restrictions are still in place and so far these have gone “unanswered”.

Researchers at NUI Galway and clinicians in University Hospital Galway have trialled the use of a robot called DAVE to prompt people to wash their hands.

“Immediate action” from both Saolta and the HSE nationally is needed to combat delays and overcrowding at the emergency department at UHG.