Keep up to date with your vaccines to protect yourself, your family and our patients. You can avail of your Flu and Covid booster vaccines at the same clinics. Book your appointment by clicking the link here or you can walk-in.
UL Hospitals Group staff can also attend any Mid-West Community Healthcare clinic.
The full list of clinics for October are available on the ULHG Staff app and the clinic timetable attached to this email.
Upcoming clinics:
If you have any concerns about Covid Booster or Flu vaccinations should complete the Flu and Covid-19 vaccines for Healthcare Workers course on HSEland. The programme has been designed to educate and inform healthcare workers about the flu and COVID-19 vaccines, and to address some of the myths surrounding its use.
Outbreak Update
We continue to manage outbreaks of infection in UHL. Visiting Restrictions are in place in Ward 3A UHL.
All efforts should be made to reduce foot traffic through outbreak wards. This means a minimal number of team members should round on the affected wards.
It is essential that you follow the below infection prevention and control fundamentals:
Staff should inform their manager immediately if they are experiencing symptoms of COVID or Norovirus. For advice contact acuteipcnurses@hse.ie
Emergency Department UHL
University Hospital Limerick remains exceptionally busy this week, with high numbers of patients presenting along with a high number of inpatients.
The level of overcrowding is far in excess of where we want to be, and we apologise to every one of our patients who faces a long wait time for an inpatient bed
We are following our Escalation Framework to maximise patient flow and create additional capacity to manage the consistently high levels of activity in the hospital.
Ongoing measures include opening surge capacity across all sites; transferring patients on trolleys to our inpatient wards; additional ward rounds by medical teams to expedite discharges or identify patients suitable for transfer to Ennis, Nenagh and St John’s Hospitals; and working closely with our colleagues in HSE Mid West Community Healthcare in order to expedite discharges.
Elective activity is also being reviewed on a daily basis in UHL and across our sites, as our teams work to maximise surge capacity while ensuring that the most urgent and time critical cases can be accommodated as scheduled.
This week is Health and Safety Awareness Week
The theme this year is digital technologies and as a Hospital Group we are focussing on the importance of ergonomics at the workstation using Display Screen Equipment (DSE)
The Health and Safety team are attending all sites this week to demonstrate the correct use of DSE and can assist with and health and safety queries.
The Health and Safety Dept. and Safety Reps look forward to welcoming you to our stands and providing some valuable information around DSE. See details of stands below.
| Date | Location | Time |
| Tuesday 24th Oct | UHL – Costa Coffee | 10am-3pm |
| Wednesday 25th Oct | Ennis Hospital | 10am-1pm |
| Thursday 26th Oct | Croom Orthopaedic Hospital | 10am-1pm |
| Friday 27th Oct | UMHL | 10am-1pm |
HSE Blended Working Policy
The HSE have circulated the HSE Blended Working Policy and Employee Relations have circulated a guidance document for assistance (attached).
To help guide you through the process, UL Hospitals Group HR Department have created a presentation to help provide more clarity on the application process for a Blended Working arrangement.
Online Q&A sessions will be provided by the Employee Relation Department. Dates will be circulated in the coming weeks.
Useful documentation:
ULHG Healthcare Audit Training & Support
Audit Formal Training
Audit Support Clinic
Clinical & Non clinical support provided.
Reminder: Mandatory Manual Handling Training
To book a training session, you must have completed the Manual Handling and People handling e-learning module (duration approx. 1 hour)
ULHG’s Health and Safety Dept in conjunction with Learning & Development Unit is running a pilot of booking manual handling and people handling on HSeLanD via ULHG.Achieve.
To book,
Contact LDU@hse.ie if you have any technical queries and any general enquiries healthandsafety.ulhg@hse.ie