Cairde Othair na Gaillimhe, a Men's Health Awareness Night, will be held on Friday 24 November 2017 in the Ardilaun Hotel, Taylor's Hill, Galway. for more information, please contact the Ardilaun Hotel on 091 521433
Galway University Hospitals End of Life Care Committee will hold its eight annual Ecumenical Memorial Service on Thursday, 26 October at 7.00 pm in the staff canteen, Nurses Home, University Hospital Galway.
6 Week Programme covering:- Learning about stress; Controlling your body; Controlling your thoughts; Controlling your actions; Controlling your panic; Controlling your sleep & maintaining wellbeing for the future.
Dates: Weekly on Tuesdays commencing 24thOctober– 28th November (6weeks in total)
The Saolta University Health Care Group and HSE Community Healthcare Organisation CHO 2 (Galway, Mayo and Roscommon) together with the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences NUI Galway, today (Oct 4th) launched the flu vaccine campaign at University Hospital Galway. This year the Saolta Group , CHO 2 and NUI Galway are partnering with UNICEF. For every flu vaccine given to staff, 10 polio vaccines will be donated to UNICEF.
The Midwifery team at University Hospital Galway will hold a candle lighting ceremony to mark International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day on Sunday, 15 October at 3.30pm in the staff canteen of the nurses home, University Hospital Galway.
Twelve health service staff recently completed sign language training to enable them to communicate better when working with deaf and hard of hearing patients, clients and colleagues.
The HSE West Department of Public Health can confirm that a case of tuberculosis (TB) has been identified in University Hospital Galway. In line with best medical practice TB screening will offered to patients and staff who had close contact with the person. All people who had close prolonged contact have been identified and we are in the process of contacting them. The risk of transmission of disease is considered to be low. The patient is being managed appropriately.
Eight women poets who live, or have lived, in Galway — Marie Cadden, Marion Cox, Mary Hanlon, Susan Lindsay, Mary Madec, Mari Maxwell, Robyn Rowland and Lorna Shaugnessy — and who have had experiences with breast cancer are being published in a collection of poems called Bosom Pals, which deals with their experiences of breast cancer.
The End of life Care Committee at Galway University Hospitals launched yesterday, Wednesday, 06 September the translation of their Bereavement & Post Mortem Information Booklets in Polish.
‘Head in the Hedgerow’ by artist Hugh Barr opened at University Hospital, Galway on Wednesday September 6th and will continue until Monday October 16th. The exhibition features a series of paintings showing the diversity of plants and flowers found within the hedgerow.
