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
£45,000 bonuses for top doctors
TOP doctors at the South West Acute Hospital have received bonuses of over £45,000 each on top of their existing six figure salaries.
‘Private’ ward in new hospital will cater for NHS patients
A ward in the new South West Acute Hospital is leased to a private healthcare company
Council candidates come out against threat to hospital services
Election candidates come out in force against any reduction in maternity services at South West Acute hospital
Woman threatened to kill hospital nurse
A 52-year-old Belleek woman who threatened to kill a nurse while she was receiving medical treatment to an injury has been given a suspended jail sentence. Victoria Heyburn, of Carlton Cottages, Finner, pleaded guilty to disorderly behaviour when she appeared before Enniskillen Magistrates Court. Heyburn, who suffers from an alcohol addiction, launched a verbal […]
Hospital will cost taxpayer £488m more than original project cost
A NEW report from the audit office has alleged that the South West Acute Hospital will cost the public purse a colossal £712m, £488m more than the initial project cost. The figures released last week reveal that the Enniskillen hospital, Northern Ireland’s first Private Finance Initiative (PFI) hospital will cost more than three times […]
Staff ‘struggle to cope at A&E’
THE South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) endured its ‘worst ever’ weekend since opening as 18 patients were left waiting for beds in A & E as staff struggled to cope with the increased demand.
Need for pain clinics at SWAH a ‘matter of urgency’
We may have the ‘most modern and up to date hospital’ in the North, but a lack of pain clinics is now a ‘major health issue’.