Tuesday 10 October is World Mental Health Day and the Psychology Department in Galway University Hospitals (GUH) is raising awareness of the role of Clinical/Counselling Psychology in supporting hospital patients who are managing illness and health conditions.
National Breastfeeding Week is marked each year from 01 to 07 October, it is an opportunity to discuss the importance of breastfeeding as the normal and healthy way to feed babies and young children. Breastfeeding gives babies the best start for a healthy life and it protects both mother and baby, the health benefits are undisputed. It is also crucial that women are empowered, enabled and supported on their breastfeeding journey.
Galway University Hospitals is delighted to announce that work is underway on the new Adult Cystic Out Patient Department.
Once complete, the Adult CF OPD will have sufficient capacity, design features and specification to allow for best practices in Cystic Fibrosis treatment.
The new build will minimise cross infection and enable the Merlin Park University Hospital CF multidisciplinary professional team to provide long-term, recurrent support for ambulatory patients.
A new “one stop shop” for patients with asthma and COPD has opened its doors in the Moycullen Primary Care Centre, Co Galway.
This clinic ensures that patients can access a consultant, a Clinical Nurse Specialist, Physiotherapist and Respiratory Physiologist and receive a diagnosis all on the same visit.
University Hospital Galway is dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak affecting multiple wards, there are currently 28 patients with COVID-19 in the hospital and five wards are impacted by COVID-19 outbreaks.
A generous donation of over €5,000 was recently presented to the Patient Comfort Fund, Claddagh ward at University Hospital Galway (UHG) in memory of the late Darragh Frain from Renmore.
Paddy Browne, a native of County Galway and eHealth Director of Nursing at Saolta University Health Care Group, who donated part of his liver to daughter Sadhbh is encouraging everyone and particularly organ recipients to live their best life.
University Hospital Galway welcomes the publication by Health Information Quality Authority (HIQA) of its report into the inspection of the Emergency Department (ED) in the hospital. An unannounced inspection was carried out at the ED in UHG on 16 February 2023, the focus of which was to monitor compliance with the National Standards for Safer Better Healthcare.
A unique breastfeeding clinic designed to support mothers who are having difficulty breastfeeding has won two Irish Healthcare Centre Awards. The ‘Well Baby Breastfeeding Clinic’ in Galway won Best Community Outpatient Initiative of the year and Clinical Team of the year at an awards ceremony in May.
