New A&E Unit for St. Lukes Hospital

blockic

road_high wrote: »

See some guy is going on "hunger strike" as he was clamped out in St. Lukes, was parked somwhere he shouldn't have been. €100 release fee. Not sure if it was to do with all the disruption from the construction going on.

Saw him out there last night in passing. No one is interested/concerned by the looks of it.

As SP said, there is a car park. Use it. I have no pity for him.

manus30

Does anyone know if there is a new MRI scanner going into St Lukes? Heard rumours but nothing concrete.

Dozen Wicked Words

manus30 wrote: »

Does anyone know if there is a new MRI scanner going into St Lukes? Heard rumours but nothing concrete.

It would be great if it was coming. Have heard nothing. They could do with getting a CT scanner that doesn't break down every other week.

Chiparus

road_high wrote: »

Very relieved to see this happen. Sod turning the 26th November. St. Lukes was finished as an acute hospital if we were to loose accident & emergencey services to Dublin, Naas or Waterford.

http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/local/st-luke-s-is-safe-hogan-1-4475804

A new A&E will not protect against the service being lost to other hospitals


Look at this A&E built in 2004!


http://www.bdp.com/en/Projects/By-Name/P-Z/Roscommon-County-Hospital-AE-Department/

road_high

Chiparus wrote: »

A new A&E will not protect against the service being lost to other hospitals


Look at this A&E built in 2004!


http://www.bdp.com/en/Projects/By-Name/P-Z/Roscommon-County-Hospital-AE-Department/

Very different catchments though. Plus portincula is pretty close by.

It is a major step in securing the hospital and preserving existing services. The govt are not going to spend €15 million and then downgrade it. Especially in the times we are in.

Chiparus

road_high wrote: »

Very different catchments though. Plus portincula is pretty close by.

It is a major step in securing the hospital and preserving existing services. The govt are not going to spend €15 million and then downgrade it. Especially in the times we are in.

84 km by the fastest way ( 1 hr 10 min ) , and once St.Vincents hear they will get 15 mil to downgrade St Lukes they will provide all the evidence that is needed to shut SLK.

road_high

Chiparus wrote: »

84 km by the fastest way ( 1 hr 10 min ) , and once St.Vincents hear they will get 15 mil to downgrade St Lukes they will provide all the evidence that is needed to shut SLK.

do you even know where portiuncula is?? Ballinasloe is about 25 mins from Roscommon....

As for the rest that's idle scaremongering and entirely your own opinion. St Luke's are free to join whatever grouping they see best for the hospital.

redtelephone

road_high wrote: »

St Luke's are free to join whatever grouping they see best for the hospital.

I don't think that's the case. St Luke's is part of the south Eastern Hospitals group. The government will decide whether it remains there or joins with another hospital group. At the moment, the two local ministers (Hogan and Howlin) want things to remain as they are, and Waterford is set to gain 21 new and replacement consultant posts in areas such as emergency medicine, dermatology and acute medicine, according to the HSE’s 2013 service plan for the South region.

Chiparus

road_high wrote: »

do you even know where portiuncula is?? Ballinasloe is about 25 mins from Roscommon....

As for the rest that's idle scaremongering and entirely your own opinion. St Luke's are free to join whatever grouping they see best for the hospital.

I am quite aware of where Balinasloe is

Thats some driving if you can do it in 25 mins. Ave speed>163 km/h

Have a look at google maps. even the shortest route on the back roads is 68 km , best route is 84 km.

And as for free to join whatever group they want? They will be placed in the St vincents group and not the st James group.

Wagon Watching

16 patients on trolleys overnight last night, and this is not just in A and E, its on ward corridors, hospital ran out of trolleys to put people on. Phil Hogan was in the paper saying how well St Lukes had done getting trolley numbers down.

Hogan was visiting someone there this week, he made a point to the manager how great it was to see the crane in the sky line and what progress had been made. He was asked by a manager if he wanted to walk round the wards to see how many patients were on corridors on trolleys, during the day, he declined. St Lukes is currently far, far worse than it has been in over 10 years.

10 plus million to build a new A and E when you probably wont have the fund to fund the staff for it and also to have nowhere then to put these patients is mad. This is not winter pressures, we are in spring.

foxcoverteddy

please don't knock our Phil, he was on a private visit, he should at least be allowed to act like a normal person, I mean did he park in the car park, now that is important, if not heads should roll, the clampers let go.
Does anyone know the true story?