Tag Archives: HSE Mid West Community Healthcare.

ONE of Clare’s most successful community organisations is to expand one of its key services to a number of other areas in the county. Obair Community Development Organisation is expanding its Meals on Wheels service which has been running from Newmarket on Fergus since 2012 to parts of North, East and West Clare. The initiative is being supported by HSE Mid West Community Healthcare. Obair has been in existence in Newmarket on Fergus for over 30 years and has been providing Meals on Wheels since 2012. The community based organisation works with people of all ages to combat social exclusion, as well as supporting older people in the community through the provision of Meals on Wheels. Meals are available primarily to older and retired people who might not be able to cook for themselves due to increasing age, ill-health or isolation. Obair currently provide approximately 200 service users with Meals on Wheels over seven days a week. Currently the service …

Are you a qualified Dietitian, and eligible for CORU registration? HSE Mid West Community Healthcare is hiring permanent Basic Grade & Senior Dietitians to work with adults and children in Limerick, Clare and North Tipperary.   HSE Mid West Community Healthcare has immediate vacancies for full-time and part-time Senior Dietitians and Basic Grade Dietitians. Successful applicants will join one of our dynamic multidisciplinary community-based teams to deliver dietitian-led one-to-one clinics and group education to adults and children. They will work in well-equipped Health Care Centres throughout the Mid West. There are currently vacancies available in a number of specialities including Adults, Paediatrics, Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes, Adult Weight Management, Care of Older Persons Rehabilitation Services, Mental Health and Health Promotion and Improvement. What our Dietitians enjoy about working in our service: “Our work helps keep people out of hospital” “There is an extremely supportive and knowledgeable team” “I improve peoples’ quality of life every day by delivering active and preventative care” …

IN A bid to direct the people of the Mid-West to the most appropriate treatment this winter, the HSE is distributing a leaflet in local newspapers including The Clare Champion this week. With the region’s main hospital, UHL, under continuous pressure and increases in both COVID-19 and Influenza infections anticipated to create a significant surge in admissions, UL Hospitals Group (ULHG) and HSE Mid West Community Healthcare are promoting the new HSE information leaflet to guide people through the various treatment options available locally this winter. Complementing the online guide to local health services at bit.ly/MyHealthMidwest, the leaflet outlines routine and urgent healthcare services for everything from coughs and headaches up to emergency life-threatening conditions and injuries, providing the phone and online contact details. The leaflet highlights such useful HSE website resources as the Health A To Z – a comprehensive guide to almost 400 individual conditions that has details of treatments for each, and contact information for accessing care …

THE Mid-West HSE has advertised for two dietitians to support the assessment and treatment of children and young people with eating disorders. Maria Bridgeman, Chief Officer, HSE Mid West Community Healthcare has outlined what supports are available to young people with eating disorders in Clare following a question tabled by Councillor Mary Howard at a recent HSE West Forum meeting. Ms Bridgeman stated the East Clare and West Clare HSE CAMHS Teams offer assessment and interventions to children and adolescents with eating disorders, as well as supports to their parents and carers. Services provided include assessment and family based treatment is line with the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders. The HSE also support admission to CAMHS inpatient units if necessary. It provides referral consultations and pre-admission/post discharge support and funds private sessions on an needs basis. The work of Bodywhys a national organisation supporting people affected by eating disorders that operates on a self-referral basis, has also been higlighted. …

FOUR young Clare people were waiting between nine and 12 months for an appointment with the Child And Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), new figures have revealed. These figures were released to Councillor Mary Howard following a question tabled at a recent HSE West Forum meeting. Councillor Howard said it is worrying that the four children are waiting between nine and 12 months for a CAMHS appointment. She inquired what is the knock-on impact of being on a waiting list for CAMHS due to the lack of staff. Last April, 45 young people in Clare were awaiting a CAMHS appointment. From this total, 19 were waiting up to three months, 12 from three to six months, 10 from six to nine months and four from nine to twelve months. Maria Bridgeman, Chief Officer, HSE Mid West Community Healthcare, said it is always their intention to provide children with the best possible service they can provide. While someone may be on …

  UL Hospitals’ Group vaccinators will continue operating three Walk-In Dose One and Dose Two Vaccine Clinics this weekend, starting from Friday. These clinics are strictly for Dose One and Dose Two vaccines, and should not be attended by anyone seeking a third vaccine dose. The Walk-In Dose One and Dose Two clinics will be held at the Mid-West Covid-19 Vaccination Centres in Ennis Hospital in the former Outpatients’ Department on Friday, November 26, from 4 to 7pm in the Abbey Court Hotel Nenagh on Saturday from 4 to 6pm and in Limerick Racecourse on Sunday, November 28 from 2 to 6pm. Anyone attending a walk-in clinic for a second dose should bring their vaccine record card. A minimum of 21 days must have passed after Pfizer Dose 1 before Dose 2 is administered. The interval is 28 days for people who have received AstraZeneca/Moderna Dose 1 and are presenting for Pfizer Dose Two. People presenting, whether for Dose One …

    UL HOSPITALS’ Group vaccination teams will be holding scheduled walk-in vaccinations clinics this weekend for people aged 12 years and older who have not yet received a first or second vaccine dose. The group has revealed the total number of Covid-19 vaccines delivered under the vaccination programme has now exceeded 400,000. These walk-in clinics are strictly for Dose 1 and Dose 2 vaccines, and should not be attended by anyone seeking a third vaccine dose. Walk-in clinics administering Pfizer Dose 1 and 2 will be held at the Mid-West Covid-19 Vaccination Centres in Limerick on Saturday and Sunday, and Nenagh on Sunday. There will be no walk-in clinics in Ennis this weekend, due to that centre’s temporary relocation from the West County Hotel to the grounds of Ennis Hospital. Clinics will be held in Limerick Racecourse for Pfizer Dose 1 and 2 on Saturday between 4 and 7pm and Sunday from 3 to 6pm. People can also receive …

ALMOST 40,000 vaccines against Covid-19 were delivered by the UL Hospitals’ Group over the last two weeks, new figures have revealed.  The group delivered 110,127 doses of vaccine across the Mid-West up to the close of business on Tuesday, June 2, according to figures obtained by the Clare Champion.  It achieved a significant milestone by clocking up 150,000 vaccine doses on Wednesday since the regional programme got underway on January 4. This figure does not include the vaccines delivered by colleagues in HSE Mid-West Community Healthcare, the National Ambulance Service and General Practitioners. Pharmacists are also delivering vaccines from this week. In recent times, the group has been aware of a number of instances in which SMS text message appointment confirmations have directed people to centres other than those closest to their homes. Similar incidents have been reported in other parts of the country over the past few days.  The group has been working to identify and contact people who …