Over €800,000 was spent on private ambulances at University Hospital Galway and Portiuncula Hospital last year.
UHG spent €511,436 on private ambulances in 2018, lower...
Two Galway food businesses were issued with a closure order by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland last month.
Health inspectors with the HSE issued a...
Ireland's data watchdog has ruled that a person doesn't have an "absolute right" to have their name spelled with a fada.
TV producer Ciarán Ó Cofaigh...
Two Mental Health units connected to Merlin Park Hospital were found to have critical risk breaches of regulations according to a recent report.
The Child...
The waiting list for orthopaedic surgery at Merlin Park Hospital has grown to more than 2,000 people.
A group of ten orthopaedics surgeons at Merlin...
Galway Hospice have decided against pursuing a legal review of the decision by An Bord Pleanála to refuse planning permission for a new hospice.
Last...
Galway University Hospitals had the second highest number of infections reported of the deadly superbug CPE last year.
A report from the Health Protection Surveillance...
Galway city council has expressed multiple concerns about plans for temporary surgery theatres to tackle some of the backlog at Merlin Park Hospital.
The HSE...
Merlin Park Hospital has joined a national register of patients getting joint replacements as iver 1,500 wait for surgeries.
Merlin Park is the first hospital...
A three day strike planned by Ireland's nurses for this week has been suspended.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and Psychiatric Nurses Association decided...
Portiuncula Hospital is now offering hypnobirthing classes for expectant mothers to take some of the stress out childbirth.
Twelve midwives working at Portiuncula Hospital recently completed...
