Altnagelvin

Altnagelvin A&E

Altnagelvin A&E posts longest wait from arrival to triage

Damien Keys at the Air Ambulance NI base.

Derry radio operator survives 25ft fall

Mark Gillespie, Director of Planned Care Services, at the Western Trust.

Significant drop in patients enduring ‘double ED’ waits in Enniskillen and Derry

Dr. Brendan Lavery.

Clinical outcomes improve after consolidation of emergency surgery in Derry

Altnagelvin Hospital

Nurse knocked down outside Altnagelvin in Derry to receive £80,000 in damages

Altnagelvin A&E

Terminally ill cancer patients referred to Altnagelvin A&E by GPs, MLA warns

The North West Cancer Centre at Altnagelvin Hospital.

Cancer Centre is emblem of all-Ireland cooperation & is having ‘tangible impact'

Vinny Cunningham, who was laid to rest on Tuesday.

Vinny was a ‘gentleman’ whose life was testament to ‘power of love and kindness’

The Health Minister joined the Western Health and Social Care Trust Chief Executive Neil Guckian and Director of Unscheduled Care, Medicine, Cancer and Clinical Service, Geraldine McKay as they visited the Altnagelvin Emergency Department on Tuesday.

Nesbitt says Altnagelvin needs new ED after seeing patient on chairs for 4 days

Altnagelvin hospital.

Trust chief apologies for emergency department wait times and delays

The Health Minister joined the Western Health and Social Care Trust Chief Executive Neil Guckian and Director of Unscheduled Care, Medicine, Cancer and Clinical Service, Geraldine McKay as they visited the Altnagelvin Emergency Department on Tuesday.

Mike Nesbitt visits Altnagelvin to hear from staff about winter pressures

The late Uel Adair in 2008.

Uel Adair was ‘kind, generous, passionate advocate for people of Derry’

Proud mum and dad Lisa and Warren Hamilton from Tempo with their new born baby boy and son Arlo. Baby Hamilton was the first baby born on New Year's Day in the Western Trust. He was born at the SWAH at 4.01am weighing 8lbs 10z.

In Pictures: Joy and delight as New Year babies are born

New pyjamas being presented to the Altnagelvin emergency department by the Derry hospital’s housekeeping team.

Altnagelvin’s housekeeping ‘healthcare heroes’ donate PJs to A&E

People are being asked not to visit Altnagelvin if they have symptoms of influenza, coronavirus, respiratory syncytial virus or other winter illnesses prevalent in Derry at present.

People with flu, COVID-19 or RSV symptoms asked not to attend Altnagelvin

Seven brilliant photographs of Santa Claus visit to Children’s Ward
Two very special visitors popped into the Children’s Ward at Altnagelvin on Christmas Eve.
Kevin Mullan

Baby Alfie pictured with one of the midwives on duty

Derry’s ‘Christmas baby’ Alfie Thomas welcomed to the world at Altnagelvin

Characters from 'Aladdin' the 2024 Christmas Pantomime at the Millennium Forum pictured on a visit to the Children's Ward at Altnagelvin Hospital on Thursday afternoon. They are pictured with 4 years old Mia Grumley.

Seven cracking Christmas photos of Aladdin stars visiting Children’s Ward

Fantastic costumes at the 2024 Halloween festivities. Photo: George Sweeney

Review of the Year 2024: October - Best ever Hallowe’en in Derry

Dr. Mukesh Chugh receiving a prestigious BB-Mahatma Gandhi Award 2024, from the Honourable Health Minister of Uttarakhand, India, Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat, Dr. Hans, and Baroness Sandip Verma.

Derry anaesthetist Dr. Mukesh Chugh receives BB-Mahatma Gandhi Award 2024

Group photo of Childrens Ward staff

‘Fred the Red’ Visits Children’s Ward at Altnagelvin Hospital

A ‘real demand-capacity gap’ in nursing home places for people requiring dementia care is the ‘overwhelming reason’ for delayed discharges from the South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) and Altnagelvin, Neil Guckian has said.

‘Capacity gap’ in dementia places ‘overwhelming reason’ for delayed discharges

Chris Dawson (38) successfully underwent surgery to cancer that had developed from a mole on his leg three months ago.

Survivor Chris speaks of cancer shock and urges people to get checked

Almost 9,000 vehicle tests were conducted by the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) at its Derry test centre in Newbuildings in October – the highest number since the current series of statistics began.

8,918 full vehicle tests at Newbuildings in October - highest monthly total

Bishop Street Courthouse

Derry woman given suspended sentence for disorderly behaviour at Altnagelvin

Former medical director at the Western Trust Dr. Catherine McDonnell

Former Altnagelvin director tells COVID-19 inquiry of staff’s ‘absolute fear’

Altnagelvin Hospital

Altnagelvin and other acute hospitals to provide backbone of new health network
A new report by the Department of Health states that Acute Hospitals, including Altnagelvin, will provide the backbone of a new health care network aimed at meeting our health needs into the future.
Kevin Mullan

Staff at Altnagelvin are stretched beyond capacity and their safety and the safety of patients is being compromised daily, it was claimed at the Stormont Assembly on Monday.

Altnagelvin stretched beyond capacity, says MLA, who blasts ‘obscene’ waits

Lesley Finlay, Macmillan Health & Wellbeing Campus Manager

Lesley Finlay: ‘Feeling you’ve made a difference is the most rewarding part'

The Western Trust recorded the lowest percentage of births of any health authority last year.

Western Trust records lowest percentage of births in the North at 16.7% (3,319)

Altnagelvin Hospital.

97,738 inpatient admissions in the Western Trust, 21.3% of North admissions

Jane designed the Western Trust’s new ‘motivational pass it on’ card to share with breastfeeding mothers.

Jane designs card to normalise breastfeeding – ‘The more seen, the less noticed’

Altnagelvin’s Crossroads Restaurant will be closed to staff and visitors over the weekend to allow for maintenance works, the Western Trust has advised.

Altnagelvin’s Crossroads Restaurant closed this weekend for maintenance

Dr Ian Donnell, GP registrar working in the Dermatology Department in the Western Health and Social Care Trust is providing his expert advice on preventative measures against skin cancer.

Altnagelvin doctor provides advice on preventative measures against skin cancer

Eddie Cooley, who sadly passed away on Tuesday.

Tributes to ‘very special’ Derry barman Eddie Cooley after sad passing

SDLP MLA Daniel McCrossan has said access to comprehensive services for people suffering from COPD needs to be prioritised, pointing out that 41,000 people in the North are registered as having the condition.

Daniel McCrossan hails Altnagelvin staff after mum hospitalised with COPD

Sinn Féin MLA Pádraig Delargy.

Altnagelvin will never be able to cope with pressures without new A&E: MLA

Junior doctors on strike at Altnagelvin in March.

Disruption expected in Derry as junior doctors get set for 48 hour strike

Dr. Meabh Cosgrove, Western Trust Divisional Clinical Lead for Obstetrics and Gynaecology with staff at the official opening of a new antenatal clinic at Altnagelvin.

New antenatal clinic officially opened at Altnagelvin

Western Trust staff at the launch of the the new Minor Injuries Unit at Altnagelvin Hospital.

Altnagelvin new Minor Injuries Unit has already seen 2,000 patients

Free entry with stalls and entertainment.

Over 60 local business stalls are popping up this Sunday in Derry

Junior doctors striking for increased pay at Altnagelvin in March.

‘Significant disruption’ expected as junior doctors stage strike action in Derry

Ms Sinéad McLaughlin.

'Horror stories such as Zoe's should never be allowed to happen' says McLaughlin

A midwifery led-unit at Altnagelvin will reopen as soon as a midwife staffing shortage is addressed, Health Minister Robin Swann has said.

Altnagelvin midwifery-led unit will reopen as soon as staffing addressed: Swann

The average waiting time for a driving test at Altnagelvin was 42 days on average over the last year.

Average waits for driving test appointments at Derry test centres revealed

The late Colbert Byrne who sadly passed away on Wednesday.

Tributes paid after sad passing of Bogside community stalwart Colbert Byrne

Sinn Féin MLA Pádraig Delargy

Delargy says new Altnagelvin A&E should be expedited

Altnagelvin A&E

New A&E at Altnagelvin hangs on 'budget affordability' says Swann

ICU staff members are pictured accepting this incredible donation from the Hegarty family. Aine Allen, Michael McGinley, Sr Stella Jojo and Ciara Legg with Daniel’s mum Michelle Hegarty and his sisters Sara-Jane and Cherish.

Generous donation to Altnagelvin ICU in memory of late Daniel Hegarty

The North West Cancer Centre at Altnagelvin Hospital. DER2126GS - 131

1353 RoI cancer patients have been treated at Derry’s North West Cancer Centre

Nurses will be setting up at Altnagelvin today.

‘Spot cancer early’ roadshow arrives in Derry

An aerial shot of flooding in the Ivy Mead area of Derry in August 2017.

Consultants told to progress to design stage of Ivy Mead flood scheme

Junior doctors striking for increased pay at Altnagelvin.

Junior doctors stage first ever strike over pay in Derry

Junior doctors striking for increased pay at Altnagelvin.

16 pics of junior doctors taking part in first ever strike at Altnagelvin

Cara Hunter.

Hunter speaks of paying for sepsis treatment and warns of two-tier health