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A&E in Limerick..are you actually serious?

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  • #32
    Schuhart
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    D-A-V-E wrote: »
    heard on the news that a&e in tipp and clare are ceasing and being transferred to Limerick reagional..also the only other a&e in Limerick city is closing (st johns) too apparently, so the already overcrowded hospital in Limerick now has a catchment area of 350,000 plus..does anyone else think the city is being ignored? our post is sorted in cork and our nearest breast clinic is galway..who sort out all our health care apparently..this is getting kinda silly like!
    Is it fair to point out that a squad of money has been spent moving the headquarters of Irish Aid to Limerick under the so-called decentralisation plan. Would you agree that money might have been better spent on something that actually provides meaningful services in Limerick? Yet, did any voice in Limerick oppose decentralisation on the grounds its just a meaningless waste of money needed for other things?

    On the rationalisation of A&E, I don't doubt it will be a pain in the ass. That said, a Limerick based A&E consultant is backing the plan. It seems that the other A&Es are not closing completely. They just won't be offering a 24 hour service.
    An emergency medicine consultant at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick has said the hospital has sufficient resources to cope with the transfer of out-of-hours emergency services from Ennis and Nenagh hospitals to the regional unit.

    Dr Cathal O'Donnell, who also works at Ennis General Hospital, said he supported the plan to reorganise acute hospital services in the region.

    Under the HSE's plan for the reorganisation of acute hospital services in the mid-west, out-of-hours A&E services are to transfer from the two smaller hospitals to Limerick around March, with all emergency surgery and most major elective surgery transferring to Limerick during the summer.

    However, Dr O'Donnell told irishhealth.com that under the reorganisation plan, there will not be a huge movement of patients from Ennis and Nenagh to Limerick. "There will be some increase but it will not be dramatic and they will mainly be surgical emergencies from these hospitals."

    He said current attendances in the A&Es in Ennis and Nenagh outside normal hours are low.

    Dr O'Donnell stressed that there had been no suggestion from the HSE that all round-the-clock A&E services will be phased out completely at Ennis or Nenagh in the short or medium term. He said medical staff at the two hospitals will still see medical emergencies if they are GP-referred on a 24-hour basis. The HSE said this week it important to recognise that access to local hospitals for GP-referred medical (as opposed to surgical) emergencies will continue on a 24-hour basis, although all surgical emergencies will be dealt with in Limerick from June.
    Now, that said, I can imagine the GPs will react to this like a fart in a spacesuit, seeing as how their patients might be ringing them at 3:00am looking to be referred.


  • #33
    D-A-V-E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 531 ✭✭✭D-A-V-E


    Warper wrote: »
    The city being ignored - have you thought about the people in Clare and Tipp. I come from Ennis and shudder at the thought that if anything happened to me or family that instead of having to go to Ennis we would have to travel all the way to Limerick. Ennis is around 35 mins away from Limerick but somewhere like Kilkee in West Clare is around an hour and a half away - add in the waiting time of an ambulance and you could be talking 3 hours - it is disgraceful.

    No point in turning up to a hospital dead.

    i know and i totally agree with you on this..but the 'situation' as i think its safe to referr to in Limerick at this stage is getting kinda stupid..with a population of over 100,000 at this stage we have f*ck all services, it's like were getting ignored or something, as i stated our post gets sorted in cork, all our health care is dealt with in galway, Limerick city has the least amount of busses per head of population than any other city in the country, and Limerick was the only city not to have been involved in the multi billion transport 21 plan and yet somehow with people commuting as far away as tipp and clare as stated above (because their services are crap too) they have to rely on the city to provide them with services..but were not geting them!


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