A long-awaited dialysis unit at Ennis Hospital is expected to be operational by the end of this year. The UL Hospitals Group confirmed last August that the tender process for a Contracted Satellite Hemodialysis Unit service in Ennis was in progress and that it had met with a number of renal care providers. Those in […]
A Clare TD has branded the reopening of Ennis’s accident and emergency unit “an inevitability”. Following a meeting this week between UHL management and the Oireachtas Health Committee, HSE Chief Executive Bernard Gloster has instructed HSE Midwest Regional Executive Officer Sandra Broderick to lead up a team examining the potential for capacity building in Ennis […]
The Midwest Hospital Campaign Group insists deep scrutiny of clinical advice is needed to ensure the Emergency Department at Ennis Hospital is reopened. It follows the HSE Chief Clinical Office’s issuing of a written response to the group outlining the reasons why it doesn’t support the reopening of the A&Es at Ennis, Nenagh and St. […]
An East Clare Independent councillor says it doesn’t make sense that people in rural parts of Clare have to go to UHL for the majority of medical procedures. Since the beginning of this year, the overcrowding record at University Hospital Limerick has been shattered three times which has prompted voices to renew calls for Ennis, […]
Clare’s Oireachtas members have received an open letter, imploring them to table a motion of no confidence in the management of the UL Hospitals Group. The document penned by the Friends of Ennis Hospital Campaign also requests unequivocal support for the reopening of the county town’s former A&E and for UHL’s executive body to appear […]