Consultant General Surgeon s.i. GI Surgery

Overview

HSE Dublin and North East Profile

The HSE has created six new health regions. Each region is responsible for providing both hospital and community care for the people in that area. Bringing community health services and hospitals together means we can take a more patient-centred approach to healthcare.

HSE Dublin and North East provides health and social care to North Dublin, Louth, Meath, Monaghan and most areas of Cavan.

HSE Dublin and North East Region includes the following hospitals:

1. Beaumont Hospital
2. Cavan General Hospital
3. Connolly Hospital
4. Louth County Hospital
5. Monaghan General Hospital
6. Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
7. National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh
8. Our Lady’s Hospital Navan
9. Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
10. Rotunda Hospital

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda Profile

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda is a 485 bed, model 3 Acute General and Maternity hospital located in the North East of Ireland. The hospital provides acute and specialist hospital services to populations in North Dublin, Meath, Louth, Cavan and Monaghan. Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital is the main acute hospital in the North East. The Hospital Services include Critical Care, Orthopaedic Trauma, Surgery, Medicine (wide range of specialties), Acute Stroke Unit, Cardiology, Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Paediatrics. Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital is an acute academic teaching hospital in partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons University (RCSI). This relationship is important in improving standards of care, fostering education, clinical research and innovation. The hospital has a workforce of approximately 2,600 staff, providing 24/7 emergency care and related services. The services include scheduled and unscheduled care activity, with inpatient acute services being primarily of unscheduled care origin. The hospital team delivers safe and timely access to our patients and community and performs highly in national unscheduled care and ED Key performance indicators. The hospital team is committed to delivering world-class care and exceptional clinical services with respect & compassion.

Current Service

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda is the main acute hospital in the North East region and is also a teaching hospital of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland medical school. The delivery of surgical services comprises complex major surgery, including acute unselected surgical on-call take at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, with elective intermediate surgery and endoscopy being provided at Louth County Hospital.

The rationalisation and regionalisation of acute services in the northeast area in recent years, along with a rapidly growing population in the Louth Meath areas, has seen a continuing increase in presentations to the Emergency Department in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda (ED presentations OLOL 2024: ca.71,000). Along with increasing unscheduled care demand on the hospital, the surgical service continues to see increasing referrals to elective outpatient, endoscopy & surgical pathways. An efficient acute surgical pathway ensures that patients of high acuity are treated safely, efficiently and effectively at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital.

The Surgical Department has Consultant General Surgeons working in teams. Each consultant has commitments to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital as the receiving unit for complex scheduled and unscheduled care and to Louth County Hospital for scheduled intermediate general surgery on an inpatient, day-case or outpatient basis.

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