Tag Archive for "Letterkenny University Hospital"

Senior doctors warn that patients will die at LUH

The Department of Surgery has requested extra operating lists as they feel that two operating lists a week is the norm for a general surgery.

Six hundred leave Letterkenny hospital over three years

These latest figures come amid reports of low morale and ongoing industrial relations problems within the Health Service Executive.

Agency staff costing three times ordinary LUH salaries

It follows confirmation that the HSE has been paying in the region of €8 m per year for agency doctors to work at Letterkenny University Hospital.

Donegal TD calls for short stay ward to reopen

A DONEGAL TD has called on the HSE to reopen the short stay ward at Letterkenny University Hospital after months of closure. Charlie McConalogue, Fianna Fail TD has urged the Minister for Health to urgently approve a funding request from LUH to reopen the ward. The ward, which closed during the summer, would increase the […]

Hundreds fail to attend hospital appointments

The DNA figures vary week by week and can range from 75 to 129. In the month of June we had 424 patients who DNA. Last week it was 110.

‘Alarmed and angry’ as 1000 more on waiting list since January

Donegal Sinn Féin Senator Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has today (Wednesday) expressed his anger and deep concern at the dramatic increase in the number of patients awaiting outpatient procedures to be carried out at Letterkenny University Hospital. His comments come following the publication of the latest patient waiting data from the National Treatment Purchase Fund […]