INMO defends figures as hospital boss says ‘many patients are appropriately on trolleys’ for assessment.

INMO defends figures as hospital boss says ‘many patients are appropriately on trolleys’ for assessment

All scheduled surgery has been cancelled at Cork University Hospital for two weeks over Christmas, despite there being almost 1,500 people on waiting lists.

A new catalogue details the impressive collection of artwork that has been donated by artists to Cork University Hospital over two decades.

In a major win for doctors at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) who have been battling to reduce appalling gynaecology waiting lists, Health Minister Simon Harris has committed to support a plan that will see a €7.5m capital investment over the next three years.

Women with serious gynaecological problems including incessant bleeding, fibroids and painful sexual intercourse are increasingly turning to their GPs and TDs to lobby for them in a desperate bid to access treatment at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH).

A new clinical director for maternity services is to be appointed to the South/South West Hospital group where more than 4,200 women are awaiting outpatient appointments for gynaecological services.

Health Minister Simon Harris will travel to Cork on Thursday to hear firsthand from hospital consultants why women face inordinate delays accessing treatment for a range of gynaecological conditions, including potential cancers.

The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has described as an “insult” the proposal to add 63 beds to the acute hospital system in the context of trolley figures reaching a record high of 612 this week.

Health Minister Simon Harris is to meet with consultants at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) in the new year amid fears that women face delayed cancer diagnoses on foot of difficulties accessing timely gynaecological services.

Minister Simon Harris received letters in May and October about the state of gynaecology services at CUMH but did nothing, writes Health Correspondent Catherine Shanahan

A new report on maternity services in the South/South West (SSW) Hospital Group has identified gynaecology services in Cork as its “biggest clinical risk”.

It is unprecedented for consultants to write to hospital management in terms as stark as those expressed by CUMH doctors over gynaecology services, writes Peter Boylan

The existing management structure at the country’s newest maternity hospital needs to be replaced and it needs its own CEO and budget to ensure its services are protected.

The chief executive of one the country’s largest maternity hospitals is facing an unprecedented revolt among doctors because of chronic underinvestment in its gynaecology service where 4,193 women are awaiting outpatient appointments.

If you’re looking for its Achilles heel, you won’t find it in the labour wards or the neonatal unit. But are colossal gynaecology waiting lists threatening the reputation of Ireland’s newest maternity hospital? Health Correspondent Catherine Shanahan says consultants are at breaking point and women’s lives are being put at risk

A helipad could be operational at Cork University Hospital by December 2017.

Thirty-one non-urgent surgeries were cancelled in two hospitals yesterday as a direct result of emergency department overcrowding

The head of one of the country’s largest hospitals has described the main nursing union’s 8am trolley count as flawed and unfair to Irish hospitals.

Cork University Hospital, the first healthcare facility in the world to be awarded a Green Flag for its work on environmental management and sustainable healthcare, serves more than 1m meals every year.

Cork University Hospital (CUH) is poised to seek planning permission for a helipad almost 13 years after its original helipad was decommissioned.

Missed outpatient appointments possibly wasted €22m of health service money last year, new figures from one of the country’s largest hospitals have shown.

Ireland’s largest teaching hospital has unveiled a groundbreaking charter for trainee doctors to improve their learning and working conditions.

The head of one of the country’s largest teaching hospitals has criticised the ‘master and apprentice’ training model and culture in which young graduate doctors are being trained.

One of the country’s largest hospitals has, for the second time in a week, cancelled operations and asked people not to attend its emergency department due to chronic overcrowding.

Cork University Hospital (CUH) now has the “cleanest hospital rooms that exist in healthcare worldwide” within its new cystic fibrosis (CF) ward, effectively removing the threat of cross infection to patients.

Baby Faith Lanphier died at Cork University Maternity Hospital when she was only five days old. Her death left her devastated parents looking for answers.

The HSE yesterday expressed its sincere regret and apology to the parents and family of a five-day-old baby girl who died in Cork University Maternity Hospital.

We as a family appeal to Health Minister, Leo Varadkar to intervene in the delayed opening of the new cystic fibrosis/respiratory ward 5B in Cork University Hospital.

Cork University Hospital is showing that improvements to patient care and flow are possible through initiatives, investment and collective commitment, writes Tony McNamara

After a delay of more than two years, a €500,000 unit for monitoring seizures in people with poorly controlled epilepsy has finally opened at Cork University Hospital (CUH).

A €600,000 donation by the Children’s Leukaemia Association will help finance a state-of-the-art unit for children with leukaemia and cancer at Cork University Hospital.

The chief executive of one of the country’s biggest hospitals — Cork University Hospital — has confirmed it will be "a couple of months" before new equipment is installed to replace its laboratory IT system server which crashed on five occasions this year.

Recurring IT issues within the laboratory computer system at Cork University Hospital have heightened the risk of misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment, internal documents seen by the Irish Examiner reveal.

The boss of one of the country’s busiest hospitals has admitted he has no idea what is behind the ongoing computer difficulties that paralysed its laboratory IT system leading to concerns about the quality of patient tests and lost files.

More than 1,000 patients are waiting nine months for a routine MRI scan at Cork University Hospital, a situation exacerbated by the transfer of additional acute services to CUH from other hospitals in the region.

An 8-year-old girl with dyskinetic cerebral palsy after her birth at a Cork hospital has settled her action against the HSE for €5.8m.

A survey of staff at two of the country’s biggest hospitals found unanimous support for being frank with patients when things go wrong — but nine out of 10 felt there were barriers within the organisation to prevent this.

Efforts to broker an agreement that would end a row between a Cork hospital and a cystic fibrosis (CF) charity over the ring-fencing of beds are to continue next week after talks last night ended without a breakthrough.