HSE Older Persons services in Donegal were delighted to welcome Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill to the site of the new Letterkenny Community Hospital today, Thursday, May 1st 2025.
The HSE is pleased to announce two significant developments in Inishowen that will greatly benefit the local community with the reopening of day services for older persons and also respite services for children and adults with disabilities at Riverwalk Respite House.
Over the next two weeks, these two local health services will resume providing specialist support and care for people in Inishowen.
At a recent meeting at Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH), staff, managers and senior leaders from hospitals in the West and North West along with members of the National Care Experience Programme, HIQA, the Department of Health, and members of the LUH and National Patients Forums gathered to collaborate and share the ways they are improving services to their patients as a result of the National Inpatient Experience Programme.
The results of the National Inpatient Experience Survey, carried out in all public hospitals in Ireland in May, have been published. This is the sixth year that the survey has been carried out and was an opportunity for patients of Letterkenny University Hospital to describe their experiences in hospital.
Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH) proudly hosted a significant event on Wednesday, 13 November celebrating 20 year development and impact of Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) and Advanced Midwife Practitioner (AMP) positions in Donegal.
The newly formed voluntary group are working with staff to improve services for patients and their families and are developing a number of new initiatives in Letterkenny University Hospital.
One year after launching in Donegal, the HSE Pathfinder team have been called out to the homes of 511 older people in the region, and managed to keep 81% of patients safely at home.
Letterkenny University Hospital is inviting parents and their families who have experienced bereavement through the death of a child or who have lost a baby through miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, still birth or neo-natal death, to a remembrance service which will take place in Conwal Parish Church in Letterkenny on April 28th.
