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A leading nursing union boss has branded the current overcrowding situation at University Hospital Galway’s emergency department as “critical” and “very dangerous” for frontline workers trying to provide safe care for patients.

Patients who had tests carried out at Mayo General Hospital to determine whether they had prostate cancer or not may have received inaccurate results, it has been revealed.

There has been a significant increase in the number of new breast cancer cases diagnosed at the Symptomatic Breast Unit at Galway University Hospitals, according to a new report, just launched.

Researchers at NUI Galway are involved in a new European project which hopes to deliver a cost effective tool for the speedy diagnosis of infections such as pneumonia. The test would reduce diagnosis time from days to hours, so that the appropriate treatments can be administered as early as possible for the best possible outcome.

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum has blamed University Hospital Galway’s poor rating in the HSE’s latest league tables on the health authority’s year-long delay in appointing a manager there.

Mayo General Hospital and hospitals in the HSE West region have been defended by the director of the regional health office in light of their poor performance in the HSE HealthStat report which was published this week.