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Praveen Halappanavar, the husband of the late Savita Halappanavar who died at Galway University Hospital last October, has been urged to co-operate with the ongoing investigations into his wife’s death.

Galway company Lifes2good Health and Beauty has won the accolade of Deloitte Best Managed Company.

People who have had diarrhoea or vomiting recently are urged not to visit University Hospital Galway in a bid to keep the winter vomiting virus out of the facility.

An outpatient waiting list for orthopaedic procedures at Galway University Hospitals has been reduced by 55 weeks since a new musculoskeletal clinic was set up at Merlin Park Hospital.

Reducing overtime and agency spending and optimising income collection from private health insurance companies are ways being earmarked by the HSE West to help it cut costs and meet its reduced budget this year.

Galway University Hospitals is set to meet its target of a nine month waiting list for adult inpatients and a 20-week waiting time for children by September.

The chairman of HSE West, Padraig Conneely, has stated that the serious delay in orthopaedic appointments for those on waiting list must have caused some people to die from pain.

A relaxation of the smoking ban in the grounds of Merlin Park Hospital in Galway has been agreed by members of HSE West following a call by chairman, Fine Gael Councillor Padraic Conneely, for more flexibility on the issue. At its May meeting this week councillors agreed that a designated area should be set aside for smokers, in place of the current protocol that obliges people to walk up to half a mile to a blue line at the hospital entrance.

Abseentism rates at Galway University hospitals have dropped significantly in the past four months.

The new Kia cee’d goes on sale here in Ireland early in May.