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Naughton welcomes funding for city and county voluntary groups
Galway Contact, FORUM Connemara and Down Syndrome Galway are among the local organisations that will benefit from €1 million in grant funding for community voluntary groups announced this week.
New hospital at Merlin Park in HSE capital spending plan
A new elective hospital at Merlin Park, a new ambulance base in the city, and the provision of a blood science laboratory are three major projects which are in the pipeline for Galway as part of the Government’s €2 billion HSE capital spending plan.
Report will recommend elective hospital for Merlin Park within weeks, says Naughton
An independent report on the need for a new elective hospital in Galway will be completed and provided to the Minister for Health by the end of next month, it emerged this week.
Sláintecare is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for ailing health service to heal itself
Last month, the Minister for Health announced a programme of action to implement the report of the Special Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Healthcare, on which I served as the only member from Connacht.
UHG overcrowding will increase unless Merlin Park plan is prioritised, says Naughton
University Hospital Galway (UHG) will face a worsening overcrowding crisis and fall behind other acute facilities unless plans for the development of Merlin Park Hospital are immediately prioritised, a government TD has warned.
Naughton welcomes Health Department moves on Sláintecare recommendations
The Department of Health has begun implementation of recommendations, which were made earlier this year, by the Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Healthcare, a Galway TD has announced.
Social Democrats to hold public meeting on future of healthcare
Róisín Shortall TD, co-leader of the Social Democrats, and Niall Ó Tuathail, Social Democrats Galway representative, and health reform advisor to the NHS, will address a public meeting on the future of healthcare services in the State tonight (Thursday).
Naughton endorses INMO call for additional bed capacity at UHG
Dep Hildegarde Naughton has this week endorsed the statement by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation that streamlining of services at University Hospital Galway has not solved the overcrowding crisis, and that additional bed capacity is needed.
New hospital for Galway now ‘realistic prospect’ says TD
The Saolta University Healthcare Group has requested funding of €1 million to advance plans for the development of a new hospital at Merlin Park in its budgetary submission to the Department of Health.
No plans to use prefabs at UHG to tackle overcrowding, says Naughton
There are no plans to use prefabs at University Hospital Galway (UHG) as a short-term response to the overcrowding crisis, FG deputy Hildegarde Naughton said last evening.
