Over 50 people recently attended the Whose Shoes event which was hosted by the Maternity Unit, UHG and facilitated by Croi. This was the first Whose Shoes event to be held in Ireland. The idea behind Whose Shoes is to facilitate discussion on topics related to personalisation in health and social services.
The event included members of the public, volunteer groups, obstetric and neonatal consultants, midwives both local and National and allied health care professionals.
Congratulations to Mr Gerry Lane, Letterkenny University Hospital who was honoured this week by the Letterkenny Municipal Council in recognition of his work as a consultant in Emergency Medicine, his contribution to the National Road Safety campaign and for his contribution to the health and welfare of the people in Donegal.
The draw for the prizes for staff who had the flu vaccine was held recently in Sligo University Hospital with Anne Marie Mahon and Niamh Finlay from Occupational Health making the draw . The lucky winners were:
Caolan Coleman, Medical Intern Jonathan Morrissey, Microbiology Dept Niamh Walsh , CNM 2 OPD Helena Haran, Physiotherapist
The Saolta University Health Care Group has today, May 3rd 2018 published the report of the External Independent Clinical Review of Maternity Services at Portiuncula University Hospital (PUH).
The Final Kaizen 3, 90 Day Report was out this Tuesday.
Kaizen 3 focused on Ward Quality Improvements within GUH, this was the first out of three Kaizen’s that was GUH led.
There were over 90 opportunities identified on this Project which was Multidisciplinary led. National Attendees attended all the Kaizen 3 Report outs, this being the final 90 Day report out. The Kaizen Team will now be sustaining all the great work achieved on this very successful project.
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.
Today, Tuesday, 24 April 2018, Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust celebrated the fifteenth series of Poems for Patience as part of Cúirt International Festival of Literature. Award winning poet Michael Coady launched the 2018 series on the Arts Corridor of University Hospital Galway.
Visiting restrictions on St. Coman’s Medical Ward at Roscommon University Hospital have now been lifted. However, it still remains very important that any visitors with recent symptoms of diarrhoea and/or vomiting do not visit patients in the hospital.
We would remind visitors to adhere to the set visiting times of 2-4pm and 6.30 to 8pm and to use the alcohol hand gels supplied as they enter and leave the hospital.
