Results 1-20 of 33 for emergency department portiuncula naughten
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023) See 1 other result from this debate
Denis Naughten: At the start of this year, 76-year-old Mary Hughes was in Roscommon hospital and was transferred to Portiuncula after suffering a seizure. Mary passed away on 4 January at Portiuncula hospital after waiting more than seven hours for a bed before finally being admitted to a ward. Mary had been forced to leave a bed in Roscommon hospital to go onto a trolley in Portiuncula hospital. Her...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (11 Jun 2015)
Denis Naughten: 169. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the planned reduction in hours of the emergency department at Portlaoise hospital in County Laois, if he will confirm the status of a Department submission to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to reduce the opening hours of four other emergency departments, namely, Portiuncula and Ballinasloe in County Galway, Clonmel in County...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (18 Oct 2005) See 1 other result from this answer
Denis Naughten: Question 290: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the upgrades planned for the accident and emergency department at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe; if she has satisfied herself that these upgrades will be sufficient to meet the hospital's needs in view of the fact that the hospital dealt with 18,548 accident and emergency cases in 2004; and if she will make a...
- Covid-19 (Drug and Alcohol Services, and Homelessness): Statements (18 Feb 2021)
Denis Naughten: Last June I wrote to the predecessor of the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, pointing out that Portiuncula University Hospital, in Ballinasloe, was in a desperate situation because it had lost 10% of its acute hospital bed capacity due to Covid-19 reconfiguration. The hospital took a very proactive approach with regard to it and forwarded two very specific proposals to the HSE. The first...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (3 Nov 2015)
Denis Naughten: 804. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on the recruitment of paediatric nurses for the emergency department at Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38090/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (17 Dec 2019)
Denis Naughten: 483. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to address the overcrowding in the emergency department at Portiuncula Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53368/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (9 Sep 2021)
Denis Naughten: 1345. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the provision of a modular emergency department extension at Portiuncula University Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway to ensure that there is a separate stream for patients with Covid-19 or other infectious diseases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42485/21]
- Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)
Denis Naughten: Last June I wrote to the Minister's predecessor pointing out that Portiuncula University Hospital, Ballinasloe was in a desperate situation because it has lost 10% of its acute hospital capacity due to Covid-19 configuration. The hospital was very proactive. It put forward two very specific proposals. The first was to develop two separate modular buildings, one for an accident and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Terry Leyden: ...to find out what is going on. I call on the Minister for Health to come before the House to report on the overall situation in medicine and the health service.There is a crisis in the accident and emergency departments. We know that. Trolleys are being counted. We know that. I had reason to go to University College Hospital Galway, UCHG, over four days, from 26 to 31 January, as...
- Hospital Services (29 Sep 2011)
Denis Naughten: Over the last month, Mullingar, Portiuncula and Galway University hospitals have been taken off call for ambulances due to the chaotic situation in accident and emergency departments. At the same time, Roscommon accident and emergency operates as a minor injury clinic for 12 hours a day, seven days a week. I do not care what name is over the door of the emergency department, what goes on...
- Hospital Staff. (17 Feb 2010)
Denis Naughten: ...for Health and Children walked out of the Chamber approximately ten minutes ago and did not think it worth her while to be present for this debate. Sadly, neither she nor a representative of her Department considered it worthwhile to hear my contribution this evening. I wish to raise the attempts by the Health Service Executive to downgrade Portiuncula Hospital and Roscommon Hospital by...
- Requests to Move Adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 (13 May 2010)
Denis Naughten: ...Children to outline her plans to address the impending crisis within the health service due to the lack of non-consultant hospital doctors from July, which threatens the operation of accident and emergency departments at hospitals like Roscommon County Hospital and Portiuncula on a 24-hour, seven day a week basis and will lead to the implementation of the Government's Hanly report...
- Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)
Denis Naughten: ...show me the courtesy of staying to hear what I have to say. In August 2006 the Health Service Executive, HSE, announced its plans to transfer inpatient surgery from Roscommon County Hospital to Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe as an interim measure before its transfer to University College Hospital, Galway. In September that year the now Minister of State at the Department of the...
- Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (12 Feb 2014) See 1 other result from this debate
Denis Naughten: In her response, I had hoped the Minister of State could address some of the questions I have raised. She made the point that very few patients come directly to the psychiatric services via an emergency department. I can tell her that is not the case in Portiuncula Hospital where a substantial number of people have come through the emergency department, as the Minister of State, Deputy...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Funding (22 Oct 2020)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank Senator Dolan for placing this matter today. Before I go to the script it gives me great pleasure to discuss Portiuncula Hospital given that my youngest child was born there. It is 24 miles down the road from me so I know it intimately. Many of my constituents work in Portiuncula Hospital and it is embedded in the fabric not just of Ballinasloe but in the wider spread of the area....
- Hospital Services (27 May 2010)
Denis Naughten: ...this evening. A statement issued by the HSE on 12 May last, in which plans for a reduction in non-consultant hospital doctors were announced, will have consequences for services in Roscommon, Portiuncula and Mullingar hospitals. It is clear from discussions with health management and professionals that a perfect storm is being allowed to develop by the HSE, in order to facilitate the...
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Denis Naughten: I have three suggestions for the Minister in respect of the issues at accident and emergency departments across the country. First, we need to better utilise our injury units, which can provide for quick diagnosis and discharge back into the community and ensure that people do not have long stays for tests that can be provided there. Currently, people go directly to accident and emergency...
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospitals Capital Programme (29 Jan 2013)
Denis Naughten: The Minister is correct in saying the number of trolleys has gone down, for which he is to be commended. He might, however, explain why up to 12 months ago there was no problem with trolleys in Portiuncula Hospital, while there has been a significant problem for the past 12 months because of the closure of the accident and emergency department at Roscommon. On the accusation that I am...
- Adjournment Debate Matters (13 May 2008)
Brendan Howlin: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Denis Naughten â the need for the Minister for Health and Children to outline her plans for the provision of acute medical and surgical care of the people of counties Roscommon, Galway, Westmeath, Longford, Leitrim and...
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)
Denis Naughten: ...of the health system. They are supposed to deal with routine surgeries, day surgeries, day cases and inpatients that had traditionally gone to model 3 and model 4 hospitals. They do not deal with urgent or emergency cases but the conditions treated can become chronic conditions if left over time. The work includes colonoscopy and urology appointments, computed tomography scans, X-rays,...