A LISNASKEA mother who is being forced to pay for a overnight stay at a hotel in Derry so her young son can undergo surgery to remove his tonsils has hit out at the lack of children’s facilities at the South West Acute Hospital (SWAH).
Patients demand more from South West Acute Hospital
RISING numbers of patients in Fermanagh are being forced to make four hour round trips to Derry’s Altnagelvin Hospital for often routine appointments with hospital consultants – and many frustrated that they are not being seen at the new South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen.
South West Acute Hospital ready for Ebola
THE SOUTH WEST ACUTE HOSPITAL is ready and prepared should an Ebola outbreak come to Fermanagh.
The worst I’ve ever seen – and more cuts to come, says health boss
The £7m health cuts are already being felt in Fermanagh with no beds available in the South West Acute Hospital on Monday morning, despite a private ward with 24 beds lying vacant.
Private healthcare company pulling out of SWAH
The company that has provided private healthcare in Ward 4 of the South West Acute Hospital will be gone from the hospital at the end of this year, the Fermanagh Herald can reveal.
Rising costs as locum staff increasingly used to plug shortage of doctors and nurses
Dwindling numbers of nurses and health service staff are having a major impact on rising costs as hospitals are forced to use locum staff…
50 attacks on staff sees trust adopting ‘zero tolerance’
In the past year staff at the South West Acute Hospital have been subjected to 50 recorded incidents of verbal or physical abuse.
POLL: Majority of people not happy with healthcare in Fermanagh
With health budgets facing big cuts an online Fermanagh Herald poll shows that already people here are worried about the state of our NHS, Ryan Smith reports…
Students given taste of work at South West Acute
LOCAL students were given the chance to experience working life in the South West Acute Hospital last week.
Staff protest against parking charges at South West Hospital
Staff members at the South West Acute Hospital protest against charges to car parking spaces