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Galway Simon Community has launched its 2023 Annual Impact Report, highlighting the continuing demand for the charity’s Homeless Services during another very challenging year. In 2023 the organisation supported 1,490 individuals across Galway, Mayo and Roscommon. With Galway City having the highest ongoing need for social housing in the country, according to the latest report by the Parliamentary Budget Office, Galway Simon Community is deeply concerned about the deepening homelessness crisis.

Ireland’s heart and stroke charity, Croí, has today launched Heart Valve Disease (HVD) Awareness Week. As part of HVD Awareness Week, Croí will be hosting four free stethoscope check events in Galway, Mayo, Limerick and Dublin. Croí expects to listen to over 1,000 hearts over the course of the week.

The Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) has warned that a lack of public hospital capacity and hospital Consultants across the Midlands region is resulting in increasing waiting times for treatment that is impacting on patient outcomes.

Croí, the Irish heart and stroke charity, is reminding all adults over the age of 65 years to ask their doctor for an annual stethoscope check, the call coming in advance of International Heart Valve Disease Awareness Week, September 12-18, which aims to improve diagnosis, treatment and management of heart valve disease.

Croí, the Irish heart and stroke charity, is reminding all adults over the age of 65 years to ask their doctor for an annual stethoscope check. The call comes in advance of International Heart Valve Disease Awareness Week, on September 12-18 which aims to improve diagnosis, treatment and management of heart valve disease.

In a first for Ireland, a patient at St James’s Hospital in Dublin has received a cell therapy treatment for lymphoma. This is a significant development for blood cancer patients and is the first time Chimeric Antigen Receptor –T cell (CAR-T) therapy is being delivered in Ireland.

ALONE, the organisation which supports older people, is encouraging older people to reach out and strike up a conversation, especially if they are feeling particularly isolated at the moment due to the extension of Covid-19 restrictions.

International experts from around the world, including Ireland, have had a letter published in The Lancet medical journal, calling for a unified approach to addressing the global challenge of loneliness.

Lollipop Day, Ireland’s only fundraising and awareness campaign for oesophageal cancer, will run across the country this weekend.

As clinicians responsible for delivering secondary and tertiary paediatric and neonatal healthcare, our number one priority is providing the best possible care to our patients.