The €1.42 million Acute Assessment Unit officially opened by An Tanaiste, Mary Coughlan, on Friday last, has been described as a key success story for Sligo General Hospital. Although still at an ...

The Chief Executive Officer, Chris Clarke, and the Board Chairman, Kevin Atkinson should tender their resignations to the Hawkes Bay District Health Board over the huge cost blow-out over the ...

A NEW ACUTE assessment unit in Sligo General Hospital is seeing 98 per cent of patients within 15 minutes, according to the Health Service Executive. Over 70 per cent of patients referred to the new ...

CLINICAL TRIALS HAVE DEMONSTRATED THE SUPERIORITY OF COORDINATED interdisciplinary stroke unit care over conventional treatment of stroke patients on general medical wards. The evidence is so strong ...

Staff at Maidstone Hospital are looking forward to the opening of a new purpose-built Acute Assessment Unit in January. The unit will comprise a ward with a floorspace of 1,400m2, sited next to, and ...

The unit – to be sited alongside the Steeton hospital's emergency department – aims to cut waiting and treatment times for some patients and reduce unnecessary admissions. Initial assessments would be ...

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As a mental health nurse on an acute adult assessment unit, thinking fast under pressure is an important part of Ben Rajaratnam's daily work. 'When a patient is referred to us, usually from A&E, we ...

Patients at Whipps Cross Hospital will receive better and faster treatment in A&E as three units are merged into one this weekend, it is claimed. A brand new 24-hour acute assessment unit will open at ...