Clinical teams at Galway University Hospitals have delivered over 36,000 virtual outpatient consultations since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Commenting Chris Kane, Hospital Manager, Galway University Hospitals said, “The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on how we deliver patient services in both University Hospital Galway and Merlin Park University Hospital. Almost overnight clinical teams had to re-assess how they could safely manage patients and put plans and processes in place to enable that. It was not possible, from the perspective of both patient and staff safety, to run many of our face to face outpatient clinics so our clinical teams used technology to link with patients and continue to monitor them.
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