HSE and Harney: Hands off our hospital

beggars_bush

have you EVER driven through Claregalway or Tuam?? the roads from Ros town direct to Galway are abysmal. the roads from north and mid Ros through Tuam are even worse.

the road to Ballinasloe from Ros town is attrocious. if you were in Tarmonbarry or Rooskey you would be a long way from an A&E.

then, once you get to Galway you have to get over the Corrib, which is no easy task in mornings or evenings

once you get to Ennis in Clare you have a motorway all the way to Limerick.

angelfire9

beggars_bush wrote: »

have you EVER driven through Claregalway or Tuam?? the roads from Ros town direct to Galway are abysmal. the roads from north and mid Ros through Tuam are even worse.

the road to Ballinasloe from Ros town is attrocious. if you were in Tarmonbarry or Rooskey you would be a long way from an A&E.

then, once you get to Galway you have to get over the Corrib, which is no easy task in mornings or evenings

once you get to Ennis in Clare you have a motorway all the way to Limerick.

I have indeed
As a child we went to Roscommon every summer
I would be renowned in our family for puking in the car at the garage on the way into Tuam many moons ago on the way home from Castlerea
As an adult I have driven through Tuam hundreds of times, both my parents are from Connaught and coming from Clare Tuam is on the main road north to Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon, most of Mayo, Donegal etc etc


And yes I've been through Claregalway hundreds of times but ambulances can by-pass a fair amount of that traffic to be fair

Now, Rooskey is 1 hour from Sligo mostly on the N4 which is not a particularly bad road, I have relations in Ballinalee (just over the border in Longford) and in Dromod (just over the border to the north in Co. Leitrim so I know that neck of the woods
Termonbarry is a little bit south of Rooskey and a quick hop into Longford on the N5 brings you a choice of 2 hospitals 46 minutes to Athlone or just over an hour into Ballinasloe

Can you actually find a single place in Co. Roscommon that is over 2 hours on from one of the 5 designated A&E centres that are to take Roscommon patients when Roscommon Co. Hospital closes down?

Because in Clare I can find you SEVERAL

Lady Chatterton

angelfire9 wrote: »

And yes I've been through Claregalway hundreds of times but ambulances can by-pass a fair amount of that traffic to be fair

Now, Rooskey is 1 hour from Sligo mostly on the N4 which is not a particularly bad road, I have relations in Ballinalee (just over the border in Longford) and in Dromod (just over the border to the north in Co. Leitrim so I know that neck of the woods
Termonbarry is a little bit south of Rooskey and a quick hop into Longford on the N5 brings you a choice of 2 hospitals 46 minutes to Athlone or just over an hour into Ballinasloe

Can you actually find a single place in Co. Roscommon that is over 2 hours on from one of the 5 designated A&E centres that are to take Roscommon patients when Roscommon Co. Hospital closes down?

Because in Clare I can find you SEVERAL

There has been alot of talk about Ballinasloe being reconfigured as well though. The main issue as I see it is that the Centres of Excellence need to be given adequate resources to deal with the increase in referrals.

Angelfire - the battle in Clare has been well and truly lost, now we have to fight to keep Limerick's A&E open 24 hours.

angelfire9

MrsD007 wrote: »

There has been alot of talk about Ballinasloe being reconfigured as well though. The main issue as I see it is that the Centres of Excellence need to be given adequate resources to deal with the increase in referrals.

Angelfire - the battle in Clare has been well and truly lost, now we have to fight to keep Limerick's A&E open 24 hours.

Limerick has a massive catchment area they can't close it

Limerick Leader Published on Wednesday 22 June 2011 09:28
HEALTH Minister James Reilly has given assurances to the city’s Fine Gael TDs that there will be no night-time closures of A&E at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital this summer.

Lady Chatterton

angelfire9 wrote: »

Limerick has a massive catchment area they can't close it

James Reilly's promises don't mean anything anymore. He sent two letters to the local newspapers and TDs in Roscommon BEFORE the election stating that services would be maintained in Roscommon General Hospital and may even be upgraded. He didn't seem to have much difficulty breaking that promise.

There is a chronic shortage of junior doctors in Limerick and elsewhere so it is very difficult for any minister to give a cast iron guarantee that there won't be some restrictions in Limerick or increased waiting times in an already overcrowded casualty department.

Vincent Browne covered the Roscommon issue tonight on the second half of the show, there was wonderful speaker on from Roscommon and she expressed the concerns of many Roscommon people - i.e that they are at least 100km from their nearest A&E and if they go to Galway, they may be going to a hospital that has 49 people on trollies (which was the case earlier today). I'd say the programme will be up on the TV3 player in a while

Sponge Bob

The HSE West 'Plan' is to close all 24 hour A and E bar Sligo , Galway ( Regional) , Limerick ( Regional) Letterkenny and Castlebar. Ennis and Roscommon sorted, now for Portiuncula and Nenagh which are a quick motorway hop ....( at night of couse) from the nearest 'hospital'. Tuam is also gone as we know.

Lady Chatterton

Sponge Bob wrote: »

The HSE West 'Plan' is to close all 24 hour A and E bar Sligo , Galway ( Regional) , Limerick ( Regional) Letterkenny and Castlebar. Ennis and Roscommon sorted, now for Portiuncula and Nenagh which are a quick motorway hop ....( at night of couse) from the nearest 'hospital'. Tuam is also gone as we know.

Nenagh went 8 to 8 two years ago.

Coolaboy

A Paramedic told me today that each night there is ONE ambulance on in the entire county of Roscommon.

Is mise le key

Hi all,

Now i dont live in roscommon and i am not here with any political aims although it is clear where my politics are by my Sig.

The truth of it is that these issues that affect your community are entirely linked into the cuts program that has been DRAWN UP BY the International Monetary Fund, This is a fact that cannot be gotten away from, while banks like Anglo whos bonds are committed to being covered by the very people who are being affected by this twill be paid.

The protest outside the dail sent a message to the elected representatives who renege on their obligations to their constituents, what is needed now from the people of roscommon is to demonstrate their resolve on this & begin a movment of passive resistance in conjunction with other protests to force this government once & for all to stand up to the EU commision & The IMF/Goldman sachs who are the beneficiaries in the long run from this bailout of the banks.

Roscommon will not have the health care it need unless we pass this debt back to it owners & exit the €uro currency.

Vorsprung

Does anyone have a link to any recent annual reports for the hospital? I'd be interested to know the numbers of attendances and triage categories.

tightropetom

beggars_bush wrote: »

It is being used, check out the figures for last 2 years...

So 14,200 a&e attendances in a year eh? That's around 38 per day. I will see 30 tonight working alone from 9pm to 8am (with backup on-call at home if I need it) in a supposedly quiet a&e. Seeing very few patients equals de-skilling docs. And that could be dangerous.

nice_guy80

tightropetom wrote: »

So 14,200 a&e attendances in a year eh? That's around 38 per day. I will see 30 tonight working alone from 9pm to 8am (with backup on-call at home if I need it) in a supposedly quiet a&e. Seeing very few patients equals de-skilling docs. And that could be dangerous.

There are around 64,000 people in County Roscommon.
that means 1 out of every 4.5 people used the facility.
That is some ratio!!

yabadabado

nice_guy80 wrote: »

There are around 64,000 people in County Roscommon.
that means 1 out of every 4.5 people used the facility.
That is some ratio!!

Not just used by people in county Roscommon.People from some areas of Galway,Longford and leitrim would also use the hospital.

donaghs

I notice they often close A&E facilities at regional hospitals during times of cutbacks. Forgive my lack of understanding here, but surely A&E is fundamentally necessary part of a hospital, large or small?

I can see the logic in moving more specialised procedures to larger "Centres of Excellence". But whats the point of a regional hospital without A&E? Somewhere people can go to in an emergency? (apart from financial savings)

Shelflife

Passed through Roscommon the other day and noticed all the signs around the place which were sponsered all the local businesess.

However i noticed that Lidl, aldi and kfc had none, did they help out in some other way or do they just dont care about the area?