NUI Galway and University Hospital Galway recently hosted its 4th SIMMED School programme; a dedicated innovative programme for Transition Year students who are interested in exploring medicine as a career. 120 Transition Year students from all around the country took part in the programme this year.
Ten teams of healthcare professionals came together on Thursday, 06 April in the Portershed, Galway to pitch their ideas as part of Neurotransmitter Innovation Event – a mentoring forum for healthcare professionals with early stage ideas to change and improve services for their patients.
Irishkidneydiet.ie is the brain child of a small group of Dietitians from the Renal Interest Group of the Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute. The vision behind the website was to create a patient education website covering all aspects of the renal diet for people with chronic kidney disease and their Carers. For the last number of years Renal patients have been checking out websites available for their condition.
Triona Cleary, transplant recipient and staff member at University Hospital Galway pictured with Pauline May, Organ Donation Nurse Manager, Saolta University Health Group and Angeline Cook, Irish Kidney Association and kidney transplant recipient of 21 years during Organ Donation Week 2017 at University Hospital Galway.
Renmore Irish Countrywomen’s Association group (ICA) have come on board to support the Butterfly Scheme Committee in Galway University Hospitals (GUH) by making twiddle muffs for hospital patients with dementia. Rose Mary Conneely of Renmore ICA came across the idea of the twiddle muff while attending the ICA centre in An Grianan. Rose Mary advises, “While attending An Grianan I was introduced to the twiddle muff concept and received a copy of the pattern which is utilised in the NHS.
Sligo University Hospital Medical Specialty has partnered with Allocate Software to implement E-rostering software for NCHDs. A Project Board was set up with project clinical lead Katherine Finan as executive sponsor. It approved a local team consisting of a Project Manager and Systems Administrator, to work with Allocate. The initial scope of the project is to deliver “Medics On-Line” and “Medics on-Duty” to 50 NCHD staff from the Medical Specialty.
Dr Rebecca Weedle, Senior House Officer, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Dr Alan Soo, Cardiothoracic Surgeon, University Hospital Galway won the prestigious Sylvester O’Halloran poster award recently at the 25th Sylvester O’Halloran Surgical Scientific Symposium for their research project on using neutrophil lymphocyte ratio as a simple biomarker to predict complication post cardiac.
The conference, which this year is an open event for all healthcare professionals will be held in the Citywest Hotel & Golf Resort, Saggart, Co Dublin on the 23rd May 2017. Our annual national conference this year is based around the theme of “New challenges in 2017: the multi-drug resistance crisis” and focuses upon raising awareness and reducing adverse outcomes from emerging multi-drug resistance organisms.
Peter Sweeney, Emma O' Toole, Ciara Glynn and Simon Fahy are final year students from Public Health and Health Promotion in IT Sligo. They have been working in partnership with Sligo University Hospital (SUH) in creating a supportive environment for staff, patients, visitors of SUH and the IT Sligo population to carry out physical activity. This has involved mapping and developing appropriate walking routes around SUH/IT Sligo area.
