Naas Hospital to resume services - except elective procedures

Dublin Midlands Hospital Group confirmed that most services at Naas General Hospital, including outpatient services, will resume as normal today.

However, all elective and endoscopy procedures due to take place today have been cancelled.

All patients impacted have been notified.

The hospital wishes to apologise to all patients impacted by these cancellations and is endeavouring to ensure that any cancelled procedure is rescheduled as soon as possible.

HSE Community Healthcare Dublin South, Kildare & West Wicklow also issued a statement on the impact to health services due to adverse weather conditions.

There was a significant impact on services provided by HSE Dublin South Kildare & West Wicklow due to the adverse weather conditions.

The HSE advised all service users who have an appointment for Tuesday 17th October 2017 to telephone the relevant HSE Office or Primary Care Centre before travelling the appointment.

In the event of a cancellation, people will be contacted by the relevant service where possible.

In the event that patients or clients deem it unsafe to travel for an appointment, the service concerned will reschedule this appointment as quickly as possible

Consequently, we can expect a gradual return to normal services over the next few days.

Community services’ primary focus will be on dealing with the most vulnerable patients and clients in the first instance. This includes discharging elderly patients, whose discharge may have been delayed due to the weather, to the most appropriate facilities as quickly as possible.

Regarding Acute Hospital services, the intent is to restore all services over the coming days. It is anticipated that outpatient services will be fully provided tomorrow with a small number of exceptions.