Expenditure on agency staff at Galway’s public hospitals has spiralled five-fold in just five years. Hiring agency staff is an expensive mechanism used by hospitals to...
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has been warned not to abandon the West of Ireland after a confidential report highlighted how certain parts of the country...
City Lives – Denise McNamara learns about the work of occupational therapist Paula Newell Occupational therapists suffer from an image problem. While speech and language therapists...
Children with diabetes have been waiting for more than a year for treatment at University Hospital Galway (UHG). Insulin pump therapy has been identified as the...
On a week where the number of Galway patients forced to wait on trolleys jumped to 37, the Health Service Executive (HSE) admitted that it had...
The number of Galway households in receipt of the fuel allowance is now the fourth highest in the country. According to figures released by Energy Action,...
Nursing homes run by the State – under the umbrella of the HSE – are now considerably more expensive than their counterparts in the private nursing...
Public hospitals in Galway and Limerick are forking out exorbitant agency rates for consultants every year, the National Director of Acute Hospitals has conceded. Dr Tony...
