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Maternity ward at Kilkenny hospital must lift visiting restrictions today: Minister

By Kilkenny Now 22nd June 2021 0

St Luke’s General Hospital in Kilkenny must comply with Health Service Executive (HSE) directives on maternity – starting from today, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has warned. The Kilkenny hospital is just one of three remaining in the State where the partners of women in maternity wards are subject to strict visiting restrictions. Last month Minister […]

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Healthcare workers battle to keep Kilkenny services running in wake of cyberattack

By Kilkenny Now 20th May 2021 0

Covid-19 testing and vaccinations have not been affected by the cyberattack on the Health Service Executive’s (HSE) computer systems. Meanwhle, staff at St Luke’s General Hospital are working hard to maintain many services in the face of the unprecedented IT crisis. In the five days since the HSE’s system went down, 425 people in Kilkenny […]

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HSE cyberattack seriously impacting on services at Kilkenny hospital

By Kilkenny Now 17th May 2021 0

The cyberattack on the Health Service Executive (HSE) has seriously impacted on services at St Luke’s General Hospital in Kilkenny. In a statement today, the HSE confirmed the following services have been cancelled due to the ransomware attack on our health services. Outpatient clinics except for antenatal clinics; Routine physiotherapy, x-ray and cardiac diagnostic

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Kilkenny hospital has no more available beds amid surge in new cases of virus

By Kilkenny Now 5th January 2021 Post a comment

There are no general or critical care beds available in St Luke’s General Hospital as the sharp rise in Covid-19 cases continues to heap pressure upon acute care facilities across the county. The stark figures were released by the Health Service Executive (HSE) as part of their ‘operations update at acute hospitals’ report. It comes […]

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Ring, don’t visit – Kilkenny’s healthcare facilities closed to visitors

By Kilkenny Now 17th March 2020 0

District and community hospitals, residential care centres for the elderly, accommodation units for those with disabilities and inpatient and continuing care facilities for mental health in Kilkenny have now had strict visitor restrictions imposed upon them. The decision was made late last night by the Health Service Executive (HSE) and South East Community Healthcare to

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St Luke’s consultant at centre of patient consent controversy put on leave

By Kilkenny Now 9th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE CONSULTANT at the centre of a controversy at St Luke’s Hospital, where procedures were carried out on five women without their consent, has been placed on administrative leave. Professor Ray O’Sullivan, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at St Luke’s previously said he did not feel he needed to obtain consent for […]

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‘Absolutely outrageous’ – Kilkenny TD frustrated with ongoing delays in funding St Luke’s MRI scanner

By Kilkenny Now 23rd July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE LACK of urgency, and funding, involved in providing an MRI scanner for St Luke’s General Hospital has frustrated a Kilkenny TD and led him to become cynical about the Government’s guarantees. The issue of the non-provision of the MRI scanner was re-opened after the Minister of State with special responsibility for […]

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REVEALED: How nurses’ strike will affect hospital services for Kilkenny patients

By Kilkenny Now 26th January 2019 0

PATIENT services at St Luke’s General Hospital will be severely affected on Wednesday when the first of six planned 24-hour nurses’ strikes gets underway. The strike action now seems certain to go ahead following the breakdown of talks at the Workplace Relations Commission yesterday. The Health Services Executive (HSE) has warned of widespread closures and restrictions

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HSE and St Luke’s apologise to Kilkenny couple whose baby died two weeks after birth

By Kilkenny Now 25th January 2019 0

A BRAIN-damaged baby girl who suffered failings in care when she was born at St Luke’s General Hospital died in her heartbroken mother’s arms two weeks later. The Health Services Executive (HSE) has unreservedly apologised to the parents of Ali Dowling Crowe, who received €200,000 as part of a settlement of a High Court action. […]

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Significant drop in number of patients treated on trolleys at St Luke’s Hospital

By Kilkenny Now 21st January 2019 0

THE numbers of patients being treated on trolleys at St Luke’s General Hospital has dropped significantly over the past three days. Last Friday a total of 46 patients at our local hospital were forced to wait for a bed due to severe overcrowding. By this morning the number had dropped to just 14, according to latest […]