Bantry General Hospital is a public hospital located in Bantry

Bantry

Bantry is a town on the coast of County Cork, Ireland. It lies on the N71 national secondary road at the head of Bantry Bay, a deep-water gulf extending for 30 km to the west...

, County Cork

County Cork

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, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

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. It is managed by the Irish Government's Health Service Executive

Health Service Executive

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 and provides acute-care hospital services, including a 24-hour emergency department

Emergency department

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, for the population of West Cork

West Cork

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. In 2008, the hospital served 11,302 out-patients, and 2,953 in-patients, with an average stay of 9.2 nights. 86.1% of admissions were made via the accident and emergency department

Emergency department

An emergency department , also known as accident & emergency , emergency room , emergency ward , or casualty department is a medical treatment facility specialising in acute care of patients who present without prior appointment, either by their own means or by ambulance...

. The hospital saw 1,249 day cases in the same year.

Services

The hospital provides 104 beds, of which 80 are in-patient acute beds, while 6 are reserved for acute day cases. A further 18 beds are for psychiatric services. In-patient services include general medicine

Medicine

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, general surgery

Surgery

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, accident and emergency, geriatrics

Geriatrics

Geriatrics is a sub-specialty of internal medicine and family medicine that focuses on health care of elderly people. It aims to promote health by preventing and treating diseases and disabilities in older adults. There is no set age at which patients may be under the care of a geriatrician, or...

, palliative medicine, rehabilitation medicine, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology

Obstetrics and gynaecology

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, urology

Urology

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, paediatrics, anaesthesia, radiology

Radiology

Radiology is a medical specialty that employs the use of imaging to both diagnose and treat disease visualized within the human body. Radiologists use an array of imaging technologies to diagnose or treat diseases...

.

Waiting times

Below are waiting times for procedures at Bantry General Hospital, as reported by the National Treatment Purchase Fund.

Surgical

As of November 2009:

• adult patients waiting 3–6 months: 0
• adult patients waiting 6–12 months: 0
• adult patients waiting over 12 months: 0
• child patients waiting 3–6 months: 0
• child surgical patients waiting 6–12 months: 0
• child surgical patients waiting over 12 months: 0

Medical

As of April 2009:

• adult patients waiting 3–6 months: 0
• adult patients waiting 6–12 months: 0
• adult patients waiting over 12 months: 0
• child patients waiting 3–6 months: 0
• child patients waiting 6–12 months: 0
• child patients waiting over 12 months: 0

Hygiene

Independent audits rated hygiene levels as 82% satisfactory in 2005, rising to 88% in 2006. The hospital had a Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans. It is also called multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus...

(MRSA) infection rate of 0.31 per 1,000 bed days in 2007.