From this week’s Galway City Tribune: University Hospital Galway – which is at the forefront of the local response to the Covid-19 pandemic – has effectively...
It could be years before there is even a sign of a solution to Galway’s hospital crisis. Because while health officials have conceded that the long-awaited...
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Health insurance companies owe Galway’s public hospitals more than €23 million. The payments owed relate to the treatment of private patients...
There were 25 ‘serious incidents’ at Galway’s three public hospitals last year in which patients died, or suffered serious harm, during procedures. Some 16 of these...
The Saolta group of public hospitals, including three in Galway, had a budget deficit of €23 million in 2015 – despite getting a multi-million Euro bailout...
More than €700,000 was paid out last year to private ambulance operators for non-emergency transport for patients at UHG, Merlin Park and Portiuncula hospitals. Fine Gael...
Over 7,600 patients were treated on trolleys in Galway’s public hospitals during 2015, according to figures released by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation. Portiuncula had...
The two Galway public hospitals were €11m over budget by the end of July, accounting for the largest deficit run up by any hospital in the...