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The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum is to meet the new CEO of University Hospital Galway to discuss what he terms the “ongoing performance related difficulties” at the west’s biggest hospital.

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum said this week he was not “shocked” to learn that University Hospital Galway has been rated the worst performing hospital in the country again.

A local TD has written to HSE West boss John Hennessy demanding an explanation for the delay in recruiting 12 theatre nurses for University Hospital Galway.

The new chief executive to be appointed to Galway University Hospitals (UHG and Merlin Park) must put ironing out the problems at UHG’s emergency department and dealing with extensive outpatient waiting lists top of his/her priorities, the chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum said this week.

Twelve additional theatre nurses will be allocated to University Hospital Galway in the next two months in the wake of a top level meeting between local Oireachtas politicians, hospital consultants and Health Minister Dr James Reilly in Dublin yesterday (Wednesday).

A leading bowel cancer surgeon at University Hospital Galway has quit his post after 15 months because of the hospital’s failure to make adequate theatre time available to him to carry out operations, the chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum alleged this week.

“Ludicrous” is how the chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum has described the decision to expand the role of general manager of Galway University Hospital’s to include responsibility for Portiuncula and Roscommon hospitals.

While Mayo General Hospital has once again performed badly in the HealthStat survey, the hospital’s rankings are improving, according to Alan Moran, hospital network manager for the HSE western hospital group.