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The Susie Long Hospice Fund has stressed the need for the HSE to deliver on targets set out in its own five-year strategy for Hospice provision for the south-east. In the week of the fourth anniversary of the death of Susie Long, the group has expressed concerns that targets for a hospice in Waterford and a satellite unit in Kilkenny will not be met, given that provisions have not been made in the capital budget for 2012.

Staff at St Luke’s Hospital were this week shocked and dismayed by a memo circulated by management, which insinuated that as a result of budget over-rides, staff wages may not be paid from October.

Plans for the long awaited upgrade of several departments in St Luke’s General Hospital were revealed earlier this week at a media briefing at the Education Centre at the hospital. The new development is expected to get underway in September of this year.

Kilkenny’s St Luke’s Hospital was delivered some positive news this week when it was confirmed that some €13m funding is to be made available in order to enable a number of priority capital developments at the hospital.

In January 2007, a young mother from Kilkenny known only as ‘Rosie’ revealed on the national airwaves that she had been handed a death sentence by the Irish healthcare system.