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City councillor Michael J Crowe tore into the HSE this week at the Regional Health Forum after he was told that the HSE has not yet applied for the development of University Hospital Galway as Critical Infrastructure — a designation that would fast track it through the planning, development and construction process and ensure its delivery years sooner.

The HSE West and North West has already overspent its allocated budget for this year and cost controls will need to be implements, the Regional Health Forum was told on Tuesday.

Uachtaráin na hÉireann, Catherine Connolly will be the honorary guest at a very special North /South Organ Donation Transplantation Event at the Circle of Life Garden in Salthill, Galway on Saturday, May 23, the last day of Organ Donor Awareness Week. This will be the first time organ donor families, organ recipients and representatives of the medical profession and health services from both the North and South of Ireland will come together for an event to promote the cause of organ donation on an all-island basis.

The country’s eye doctors will gather at the Galmont Hotel for two days next week, when Galway hosts the Irish College of Ophthalmologists’ (ICO) annual conference.

The first-ever National Mental Health Experience Survey is now open to people who have accessed care across 35 adult acute approved centres in Ireland. The survey is a joint initiative of the Department of Health, the Mental Health Commission, and the HSE, facilitated by the National Care Experience Programme (NCEP).

HSE Capital and Estates are currently in the process of procuring a Design Team for delivery of the MPUH Development Control Plan and further updates are expected later this year, the HSE Regional Health Forum was told last week.

A new Development Control Plan (DCP) for University Hospital Galway, as well as an associated Strategic Assessment Review (SAR) has been completed and is approved by the HSE Board, the latest meeting of the Regional Health Forum heard last week.

University of Galway has unveiled a new 5km river route which aims to enhance physical and mental wellbeing for students, staff and the wider community.

The Department of Health has downgraded plans for a new, fully resourced, 200-bed elective hospital building at Merlin Park.

Independent Councillor Dr Evelyn Parsons has said that the State’s own maternity data leaves no credible, evidence-based case for the proposed downgrading of maternity services at Portiuncula University Hospital (PUH), and that national scrutiny is now unavoidable.