Monaghan General Hospital
Monaghan,
Co. Monaghan

Tel: (047) 81811

Existing Activity Levels and Service Details

Services

Monaghan Hospital site is part of the Cavan/Monaghan Hospital Group and provides a general acute hospital service to the catchment area of Monaghan. 

The range of acute services are as follows:

• General Medicine
• General Surgery   
• Gynaecology (out-patient and day gynaecology)
• High dependency/Special care     
• Coronary Care Unit    
• Day Services
• Treatment Room ServicesOut-patient Services
• Radiology Services
• Pathology Services
• Physical Medicine Services.

The bed complement at 1/1/2003 is as follows:

51 General Medicine (including 3 CCU beds)
32 General Surgery (including 3 HDU beds)
13 Day Ward Beds

96 Total

Hospital currently off-call.  

The “Treatment Room” for minor injuries operates on a 24-hour basis at present Services and is managed by the Department of Surgery. Medical emergencies are admitted directly to the wards.

Activity at Monaghan Hospital for 2001 and 2002:

Inpatients	Admissions 2001	Admissions 2002
Surgery	1987	1433
Medicine	2324	2009
Paediatrics	368	166
Obstetrics	83	-
Gynaecology	309	10
Total	5071	3618

Day Patients	2001	2002
General Surgery	1937	1794
General Medical	771	870
Gynaecology	192	25
Other	14	7
Total	2914	2696

Treatment Room Attendances	2001	2002
New	3901	6521
Reviews	3091	4638
Total	6992	11159

Proposals

• Elective Medical Services and an emergency medical service provided 24 hours a day 7 days a week on a protocol driven basis
  
  
• A protocol-driven five-day elective surgery service.  Major elective and emergency surgical services for the Hospital Group will be provided at Cavan or at other hospitals as appropriate.  This proposal is in line with the recommendation of the Royal College of Surgeons considered and adopted by the Independent Review Group on Surgical, Orthopaedic Trauma and A&E services in June 2002
  
  
• Day services including day surgery, gynaecology, general medicine, dermatology, rehabilitative medicine and diagnostic services
  
  
• A Treatment Room on a seven-day, 9am to 9pm basis under the management of the Dept of Surgery
  
  
• Outpatient services in medicine, surgery, obstetrics, gynaecology, paediatrics, orthopaedics, ENT, dermatology, urology etc will continue or be developed as appropriate on the Monaghan site
  
  
• Dermatology Services for Cavan/Monaghan
  
  
• A Midwifery led Maternity Unit will be provided in accordance with the recommendations of the Review Group on Maternity Services and the work of the task force set up to implement its recommendations
  
  
• Appropriate diagnostic and support services will be provided.