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Kilkenny’s St Luke’s Hospital was delivered some positive news this week when it was confirmed that some €13m funding is to be made available in order to enable a number of priority capital developments at the hospital.

Business leaders in the west shared stories about how their companies have adapted to the difficult economic climate at an IBEC conference on Wednesday May 25 at the Carlton Hotel, Galway. Over 30 local business people attended the 'Boosting productivity under pressure' event, which was sponsored by ESB Electric Ireland.

The HSE’s decision to appoint an additional three-person management team at Galway University Hospitals was taken because the existing management structure did not compare with other Irish teaching hospitals, the health authority’s regional director of operations said this week.

A member of the HSE West’s regional health forum warned this week that the health authority could be €100 million over budget by the end of the year.

A 39-year-old pregnant woman suffering from breast cancer had her surgery deferred at University Hospital Galway because her consultant could not get access to a operating theatre.

A trade union which represents nurses, care assistants and support staff at Galway University Hospitals says it is “gobsmacked” by the HSE’s decision to appoint three new management staff with a combined salary of €379,000 to the group.

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum has slammed University Hospital Galway’s poor rating in the HSE’s latest league tables as “embarrassing”.

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.

A former vice chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum is calling on the health authority to rethink its decision to close St Francis Nursing home in Upper Newcastle as a residential facility.

The Quarterly National Household Survey Q4 2010 figures released this week shows that some 18,900 people are unemployed in the Midlands region. The region’s unemployment rate has increased substantially to 15.9 per cent compared with 9.5 per cent two years ago.