TROLLEY WAITING TIMES REDUCED AT UHG EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Date Published: 27-Jun-2012

Significant progress is being made in tackling patient waiting times at the Emergency Department in UHG.

That's according to CEO of the Galway Roscommon Hospital Group Bill Maher who addressed this week's HSE West Regional Health Forum meeting.

Since January, the highest number of patients waiting for beds in the Emergency Department for longer than 18 hours was 12 in February.

Mr Maher says the situation improved in March when no patient waited more than 18 hours for a 21 day period.

There is one theatre closed in UHG on a rolling basis while one of the theatres in Merlin Park is also closed 3 days a week.

Speaking to Galway Bay fm news, Cllr Mary Hoade says assurances have now been provided that the volume of patients on trollies will continue to be reduced