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.
On 22nd February a workshop was hosted by Community Healthcare Organisation Area 1 (Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan & Sligo) in conjunction with the National Clinical Care Programme for Diabetes.
As part of the HSE Healthy Ireland Policy and HIQA Nutritional & Hydration Standards Better Health & Well-being, Sligo University Hospital (SUH) is always actively promoting Healthy lifestyle initiatives, in efforts to support the health and wellbeing of staff, families, patients and service users and on Wednesday 01 March, 2017 saw the unveiling of the ‘bench project’ as part of their Health and Wellbeing initiative.
Sligo University Hospital officially launched their Calorie Posting Policy on Wednesday, 01 March, 2017. As part of the HSE’s Healthy Ireland Policy, Sligo University Hospital began rolling out the HSE Calorie Positing Policy back in October 2015 and introduced a 6 Phase Plan to complete this process for all hot and cold food items and beverages in the staff canteen/coffee dock.
The new Integrated Blood Sciences Department at the Laboratory in Sligo University Hospital was officially opened on Monday February 27th 2017. The facility was formally opened by Michael O’Brien who was the first member of staff in the laboratory in SUH and who worked there for 25 years.
The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital Galway have introduced a new technique for harvesting veins for use in coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG). Dr Alan Soo, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon and his team performed the first ever endoscopic vein harvest (EVH) for Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) on the 14 February at University Hospital Galway. UHG is the first public hospital in the Republic of Ireland to offer this type of surgery.
Physical activity awareness day at University Hospital Galway - 'Love Life Love Walking' in association with Healthy Ireland and Operation Transformation
Galway University Hospitals (GUH), a leader in interventional radiology once again recently showcased the expertise of the Interventional Radiology Department when they hosted “live cases” for the LINC international interventional radiology conference which took place in Germany recently.
On Wednesday, 15 February 2017, Galway University Hospitals in conjunction with the Alzheimer Society of Ireland will host on site for the first time the “Alzheimer Society Mobile Information Service Bus”.
