The failure of some councillors to turn up for meetings of the Regional Health Forum for the West and North-West was highlighted at last week's annual general meeting at Merlin Park in Galway.

The HSE has furnished specific data in relation to the roll-out of its home help services in Mayo in response to a series of questions from a local councillor.

An explanation as to why an ambulance was destroyed by fire outside the Sacred Heart Hospital in Castlebar recently was sought from management of the HSE Regional Health Forum West at their meeting last week.

A member of Mayo County Council  has been re-elected as Vice-Chair of the HSE West Regional Forum, which has been restructured and is now known as HSE West/North-West.

It has been confirmed that the long-awaited primary healthcare centre in Ballyhaunis will be open before the end of this year.

Mayo Baby Week takes place from June 9th to 15th.  This is the third year celebrating Infant Mental Health Awareness Week in County Mayo.

Fianna Fáil TD for Sligo-Leitrim Eamon Scanlon has welcomed the news from the Health Service Executive (HSE) that plans are moving forward for the construction of the long-awaited Tubbercurry Primary Care Centre.

Saolta management has denied there is a stillbirth problem at Mayo University Hospital despite five deaths in the space of three months.

There are no major capital projects due for completion at Mayo University Hospital (MUH) until the end of 2027 despite serious overcrowding issues at the hospital, members of the Regional Health Forum West were told last week.

An elderly patient was found in a drain in his hospital gown after going missing from a healthcare facility in Castlebar.

The recent introduction of car parking charges at Merlin Park Hospital in Galway will be made permanent, members of the HSE West Forum have been told.

There are fears in Ballaghaderreen that a planned primary healthcare centre will be subject to the same delays that have bedevilled a similar project in Ballyhaunis.

Mayo University Hospital (MUH) has said it made "significant progress" in reducing waiting lists during 2024. There were 61,758 outpatient appointments (new and returning) in MUH last year, an increase of 8,690 on the previous year.

It is hoped that the construction of the long-awaited Tubbercurry Primary Care Centre may commence next October.

After a four-year delay, work has resumed on the Ballyhaunis Primary Healthcare Centre with an expected completion date this year.

Management at Mayo University Hospital (MUH) in Castlebar has welcomed the recent publication of the results of the National Inpatient Experience Survey, carried out in all public hospitals in Ireland last May.

Failure to have an ambulance available to promptly respond to serious road traffic accidents and other emergencies could be the difference between life and death, a Mayo councillor has told the Health Forum West.

The HSE's Health Forum West has become part of a new entity to be titled HSE West and North-West.

The HSE has said there is a need for more beds at Mayo University Hospital (MUH) in Castlebar after it revealed that there is now full patient occupancy at the Sacred Heart Hospital in the county town.

Precise information on the number of patients waiting on trolleys at Mayo University Hospital (MUH) cannot be provided by the HSE because trolley counts are assessed through different circumstances and scenarios, a Mayo councillor has been told.

The HSE has stated that there are eight main reasons for delayed discharge of patients from hospitals, which in turn leaves a shortage of beds for new patients waiting to be admitted to wards.

The HSE has acknowledged that construction work on the long-delayed primary healthcare centre in Ballyhaunis has been "intermittent" since it resumed earlier this year.

Cllr Paul Lawless, who is running for Aontú in the general election, is calling for the government to back the expansion of his 'Priority Health Bus' project.

Independent Ireland candidate in Sligo Leitrim, Cllr Michael Clarke, has called for more funding for home help services. Cllr Clarke described the home help service as "a Godsend to many older people and their families".

The Reynolds family, from Bunninadden and Ballymote, would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all those who aided in organising and participated in the charity event they held this time last year.

Cllr Patsy O’Brien, who is running as an Independent candidate in Mayo for the upcoming general election, has urged the HSE to address the "deteriorating crisis" at Mayo University Hospital (MUH), saying it is "falling below expected standards with ...

A Fine Gael candidate in Mayo for the upcoming general election has called on the HSE to provide more accessible parking facilities at Mayo University Hospital for patients undergoing cancer treatment, the elderly and the infirm.

Knock has the oldest population in the western region and there are plans to make the popular pilgrim destination an age-friendly village.

There were 26 agency staff employed at Mayo University Hospital in the first half of this year, including 10 consultants. A meeting of the HSE Forum West last month revealed that MUH spent over €7. 5m on agency staff in 2023 and has spent a further €4.

The HSE is unlikely to be able to outline a cure for long-term health conditions relating to Covid-19, as well as Lyme Disease, but the current procedure for treating people with the conditions was outlined to members at a meeting of Health Forum ...

Following the termination of the HSE recruitment ban on July 15th last, HSE Forum West has revealed that several new staff have ben appointed at Mayo University Hospital (MUH).

A mobile x-ray service for older people and people with disabilities is proving popular in the HSE West area.

A unit to treat minor injuries should be up and running in Ballina in "a few years", according to the HSE.

Mayo University Hospital spent over €7. 5m on agency staff in 2023 and has spent a further €4. 4m in the first seven months of 2024, the HSE West has revealed. Members of the HSE West Forum were told that €7,565,718.

The HSE has no plans to roll out x-ray services in Claremorris.

The 40-member Health Forum West, whose functional area includes Mayo as well as counties Galway, Limerick, Clare, Donegal, Leitrim, Limerick, North Tipperary, Roscommon and Sligo, re-convened following the summer recess for its September meeting in ...

The HSE has revealed that it will take years before the proposed Ballina District Hospital will be ready.

A number of events will take place in Mayo to mark National Breastfeeding Week, which starts today (Tuesday) and continues until October 7. In several branches of Mayo's libraries, there will be reading from the story ‘Milky’ by Maria Betsworth.

A completion date of late 2025 has been announced for the new Ballyhaunis Primary Health Care Centre.

In 2023, Swinford man Alan Heaney undertook what is known as ‘the toughest foot race on earth’, the six-day, 251-kilometre Marathon des Sables in the Sahara Desert, raising funds for Mindspace Mayo, which supports young people in Mayo aged 12 to 25 ...

Dear Editor I wish to express my gratitude to the staff of the Mayo General Hospital in Castlebar. They often get such bad press and so seldom are acknowledged for their hard work and dedicated care they give to all their patients.

The family of the late Patrick Rowland are contemplating taking a civil case against the HSE over the circumstances of his death, according to their solicitor.

The provision of further beds at Galway University Hospital, a cancer centre of excellence, will improve access to treatment for cancer patients at Mayo University Hospital; however, the 96 new beds are not expected to be delivered until 2028.

More than 900 schoolchildren in Mayo are still awaiting an assessment under the HSE School Dental Scheme, according to new figures provided by the HSE in the West.

A Ballyhaunis-based councillor has said she expects to see a timeline for delivery of the town’s stalled primary care centre by the time the next meeting of the Regional Health Forum West is held in September.

A senior HSE executive has said that population growth is a "significant factor" in GPs struggling to keep up with patient demand.

Saolta has yet to apply for funding for the provision of a bereavement officer at Mayo University Hospital.

Minister of State Dara Calleary TD has confirmed that St Fionnan’s Nursing Unit on Achill Island will reopen to patients from the end of next week.

Mayo advocate Dympna Mulroy from Muscular Dystrophy Ireland joined Rare Diseases Ireland at Leinster House to warn Oireachtas members that the number of diseases screened for using newborn bloodspot screening in Ireland, also known as the ‘heel ...

Coroner decides not to issue immediate verdict

The son of a 69-year-old man who went missing from Mayo University Hospital (MUH) - and later drowned in the Castlebar River - has told an inquest that he was "scared out of his life" once he heard the news that his father had disappeared from the ...

A hospital has apologised over failings in care for a 72-year-old woman who died 11 days after she was admitted to Mayo University Hospital (MUH) suffering from shortness of breath and weakness.

There won’t be any reduction to day services at Sacred Heart Hospital in Castlebar.

Some 220 people are waiting on additional home support services in Co Mayo, according to new figures.

A report from the Health Information Quality Authority (HIQA), following an unannounced inspection at Mayo University Hospital (MUH) last June, has found that its accident and emergency department was “not functioning effectively” and only partially ...

It will be years before the proposed extension to the emergency department at Mayo University Hospital (MUH) is completed, it has been revealed. The extension would see 70 additional beds at MUH.

An estimated 20 children in Mayo are struggling with significant hearing loss and are on lengthy HSE audiology waiting lists, which may have a long-term adverse impact.

Mayo Infant Mental Health Forum (IMHF) recently held an event at the Atlantic Technological University in association with the Early and Active Years subgroup of Mayo Children’s and Young People's Service Committee.

A Castlebar councillor has said that there are too few respite beds in the county town.

Two full-time GP positions are vacant in Mayo, it has been revealed.

A Sligo councillor has described HSE’s management's behaviour as ‘disgraceful’ at a recent meeting of the Regional Health Forum West. The Forum met for the first time since November, which Cllr Declan Bree heavily criticised.

More than 100 schoolchildren and 90 adults were trained in life-saving Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) last year by a voluntary group in East Mayo.

The Department of Public Health West and North West is responding to two cases of confirmed infection and one probable case of infection of meningococcal disease in the West.

There are fresh calls for a weekend rota for GPs to return.

It will be a day to remember in the North Mayo village of Lahardane tomorrow (Wednesday) when a new GP begins operation.

Children’s cancer charity, Cancer Fund for Children, has announced that the tender documents are now available for their therapeutic short break centre, Daisy Lodge, to be built on the shores of Lough Corrib in Cong Co. Mayo.

The HSE is urging parents to make sure children and young people are up to date with their MMR vaccine due to a rise in cases in parts of the UK and Europe. The MMR vaccine protects against measles, mumps and rubella.

The Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) is teaming up with RTÉ’s Operation Transformation to support National Blood Pressure Day 2024.

The daughter of an 84 year-old North Mayo woman suffering from diabetes and a kidney infection who was left waiting 22 hours for a bed at Mayo University Hospital has called on the Government to take urgent action.

A councillor has said a new extension to Mayo University Hospital (MUH) will not make a difference unless extra beds are put in place.

An inspection carried out by the Mental Health Commission found a number of areas of non-compliance in a unit at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Castlebar.

The HSE needs to do more to help smaller healthcare companies, according to a member of Mayo County Council.

Cancer Care West is once again drawing attention to the huge demand for their services.  The charity provides practical and emotional support services to anyone whose life has been affected by a cancer diagnosis.

A new initiative, that has to potential to save lives, was launched at the Breaffy House Hotel on Sunday.

A Mayo TD has blasted the lack of progress on the delivery of a new emergency department at Mayo University Hospital. Fine Gael’s Alan Dillon raised the issue in the Dáil last week.

Deputy Michael Ring has raised in the Dáil the urgent need for substantial funding to be approved for a new headquarters for Castlebar Order of Malta. Deputy Ring has also contacted Minister Heather Humphreys on this matter.

A new high specification videofluroscopy service has been introduced in Mayo University Hospital (MUH).  Michael Browne, from Ballina, was the first patient to be treated with the new state-of-the-art diagnostic technology at the hospital.

A very substantial legacy gift to Croí, the West of Ireland heart and stroke charity, is set to transform its work in the area of stroke prevention and post-hospital community support for those recovering from a stroke.

Discussions are underway between the HSE and a doctor interested in taking up the GP vacancy in Lahardane.

Over 20,000 people have been on trolleys in the four western hospitals so far this year with more than 3,700 patients left waiting for treatment at Mayo University Hospital (MUH).

Pharmacies play a vital role in Irish society, offering a wide range of essential services that go far beyond dispensing prescription medications.

Beaumont Hospital has apologised in the High Court for the failings in care and the devastation caused to the family a young Mayo girl who died there six years ago.

Ballina Breastfeeding Support Group held an event for Breastfeeding Awareness Week, which ran from October 1st to 7th. Breastfeeding has many positive benefits for mother and baby.

The people of Lahardane have demanded that the Minister for Health and representatives from the HSE attend an upcoming public meeting regarding the vacant GP position in the village.

Full services in two day care centres in Co Sligo are set to be restored in the coming weeks.

A Mayo election candidate is calling for the roll-out of a mobile X-ray service for the county.

There were 294 patients on trolleys at Mayo University Hospital in August, which was the second worst August for overcrowding at the facility ever recorded. The four hospitals in the west had more than 2,200 patients awaiting treatment.