Galway University Hospitals recently launched their ‘Planning your discharge from Hospital Booklet’ which will support patients, their carer’s and families to understand how their discharge or transfer from hospital will take place.
The need was identified to produce a booklet following the National Patient Experience Survey May 2017 results, where respondent’s to the survey at GUH said they would like to receive more information in relation to their discharge from hospital.
The Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) along with the Patient Experience Committee, University Hospital Galway host their second Patient Experience Fair Day presenting their improvement plans and changes that have already been implemented for patients, their families, carers and staff.
A new bereavement room for patients and families using the maternity services at University Hospital Galway was officially opened yesterday evening, Thursday, 07 December by Cathy Quinn, the First Midwife Consultant in Perinatal Bereavement Care appointed in Ireland. Semora Ciúin is the first in-patient bereavement room to be opened in the country.
The Children’s Remembrance Day Committee at University Hospital Galway (UHG) launched their annual ‘sponsor a Christmas tree light’ last night in the staff canteen, UHG.
The Midwifery team at University Hospital Galway will hold a candle lighting ceremony to mark International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day on Sunday, 15 October at 3.30pm in the staff canteen of the nurses home, University Hospital Galway.
Eight women poets who live, or have lived, in Galway — Marie Cadden, Marion Cox, Mary Hanlon, Susan Lindsay, Mary Madec, Mari Maxwell, Robyn Rowland and Lorna Shaugnessy — and who have had experiences with breast cancer are being published in a collection of poems called Bosom Pals, which deals with their experiences of breast cancer.
Cancer Care West has recently commenced an oncology psychological support service for in-patients being treated for cancer in University Hospital Galway. UHG is now only the third hospital in Ireland with a recognized psycho-oncology service, the other two being St James’ and St Vincent’s in Dublin.
A €2.5 million contract was signed this week between the HSE, the Saolta University Health Care Group, GUH and software company Kainos Evolve to implement a new electronic based patient record system in Galway University Hospitals. The contract includes software customisation and scanning over a five year period.
