A University Hospital Galway Medical Consultant has developed a “Clinical Pass” smartphone app to allow healthcare students across the region to undertake clinical placement. Prof Derek O’Keeffe Consultant Physician University Hospital Galway, working with colleagues in the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences in NUI Galway and Renville Informatics has developed a smartphone based Clinical Pass App to facilitate clinical placement for health care students.
Welcome to the Summer 2020 COVID-19 special edition of the Saolta University Health Care Group newsletter. This is a COVID-19 special edition looking back at the last number of months.
Click here to download a copy of the Saolta e-Newsletter Issue 42 Summer 2020
Hospital, Community Healthcare West Executive Officers, Director of Public Health in Galway, Mayo and Roscommon, Chief Executives of the Local Authorities in the region and the Chief Superintendents of An Garda Síochána today urged the public to follow the public health advice to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. This is particularly important over the coming weeks as the number of visitors to our region continues to increase.
Saolta University Health Care Group would like to remind the public that visiting is still not permitted at any of the Group’s Hospitals other than in exceptional circumstances. These restrictions are in place at:
As Ireland enters a crucial phase in the fight to keep the spread of COVID-19 under control, the Health Services in the West would like to thank people for their help to date and ask everyone in the West to continue to support our frontline staff by following the public health advice to prevent the spread of the virus.
The hospitals in the Saolta University Health Care Group* are deferring all but very urgent inpatient, day surgery, diagnostics tests and outpatient appointments from today, Monday March 16th until further notice. This is to ensure that the hospital has the necessary capacity to deal with any increase in suspected and confirmed COVID 19 cases.
All hospitals in the Saolta Group are implementing visiting restrictions from this evening, Friday March 6th. The restrictions will continue into next week and will be kept under review.
These restrictions are being put in place as an infection control measure and will apply to:
Welcome to the Winter 2019 edition of the Saolta University Health Care Group newsletter. In this issue we feature Sligo University Hospital and highlight some of the developments and achievements that have been taking place there.
Click here to download a copy of the Saolta e-Newsletter Issue 41 Winter 2019
D’fhoilsigh Saolta An Grúpa Ollscoile um Chúram Sláinte torthaí an phróisis measúnaithe a rinneadh faoi na bealaí is fearr chun na seirbhísí ospidéil a fhorbairt sa todhchaí ar mhaithe le sláinte na n-othar in Iarthar agus in Iarthuaisceart na hÉireann a aithint.
The Saolta University Health Care Group today published the outcome of the options appraisal process undertaken to identify the most appropriate way to proceed with the future development of hospital services in Galway to enable the delivery of the best possible outcomes for patients across the West and North West of Ireland.
