University Hospital Kerry

23/11/2025

🛡️ If you are pregnant 🤰, top-up your protection this winter with the flu and whooping cough vaccines. The vaccines are safe and effective. For more information, visit: https://bit.ly/42hYuzm | HSE Ireland

21/11/2025

🛡️ Top-up your protection this winter with the flu and COVID-19 vaccines. See what vaccines are recommended for you: https://bit.ly/46KK4Jc
| Ireland

21/11/2025

Julie O’Neill, Integrated Healthcare Area Manager for Kerry, joined Radio Kerry to discuss the importance of the campaign. She shared practical tips on staying healthy at home and explained why knowing your healthcare options gives peace of mind.


HSE Ireland HSE South West

19/11/2025

➡️All specialities at UHK joined forces to mark Antibiotics Awareness Day yesterday, November 18th 📅. Colleagues from Nursing, Pharmacy, Microbiology, Surveillance, Surgery, Orthopaedics, Medicine, Gerontology, Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Paediatrics were all represented. The main message was to promote the prudent use of antibiotics to fight the emergence of microbial resistance.

UHK was delighted to host Dr Aoife Fleming (Vice Head for Interprofessional Learning at UCC) and UCC Masters of Pharmacy Students, Éibhín Cronin and Emma Kearney, as well as a Pharmacy colleague from MTU Tralee, Dr Clara Heinrich, all of whom work in the specialist area of Antimicrobial Stewardship.

We were also honoured to have a visit from Dr Eamonn Shanahan, GP, who recently collaborated with a UCC-led initiative “Patient and Healthcare Staff Stories: Experience of Sepsis, Infection & Antimicrobial Resistance”.
Sincere thanks to everyone who supported the event and to the sponsors, Café Ballybunion, Pharmacy & Opticians Killarney and .ie

HSE Ireland

13/11/2025

📍Last week, we hosted a Sepsis Awareness stand at the Listowel Food Fair.
💙 Over 350 people stopped by to learn about sepsis and how early recognition saves lives.
🙏Huge thanks to Dr. Niamh Feely, Katie O’Connor, and our amazing team for making this happen—and to Jimmy Deenihan for his incredible support.



HSE South West

12/11/2025

Today marks the launch of Caring For Kerry we're appealing to the people of Kerry to support us in keeping the UHK Emergency Department available for those who need it most.
Follow us over the coming weeks for more information and learn about your care options, why timely discharge matters and how to stay well at home.

10/11/2025

🎉 Exciting Upgrade at UHK Emergency Department

We’re delighted to announce the official opening of our newly renovated X-ray room in the Emergency Department at University Hospital Kerry.
This project, funded under the National Equipment Replacement Program, includes replacing General X-ray equipment and a full-room renovation.

A huge thank you to Dr Ger Flynn, National Clinical Head of Medical Devices, for making this possible and for joining us recently at UHK for the ribbon-cutting ceremony alongside Mary Fitzgerald, Head of Service and Hospital Manager.

05/11/2025

In recognition of the Medication Safety Week 2025, UHK held a Medication Safety Awareness morning for Staff and Patients to celebrate the launch of a New Discharge Medication Information Envelope. The envelope was designed in recognition of the HSE’s Medication Safety Programme, and incorporated valued patient feedback from the National Inpatient Experience Survey 2024. The envelope aims to empower and inform patients of medication safety on discharge from hospital. All patients being discharged from UHK will have their prescriptions provided in these envelopes from Tuesday, November 4.

In recognition of this year’s theme ‘preventing side effects’, UHK also promoted awareness to staff and patients, the HSE’s Know Check Ask and My Medicines List initiatives. Posters and leaflets are available to patients throughout UHK and in multiple languages on the HSE website : http://www2.healthservice.hse.ie/organisation/qps-improvement/national-medication-safety-programme-safermeds/

Medication is the most common cause of avoidable harm in healthcare globally. Whether you are a healthcare professional, a patient or a carer you can help make medication safer. Together we can reduce medication related harm.

05/11/2025

22/10/2025

The Quality, Risk and Patient Safety (QRPS) Department held an information day Wednesday October 8, to raise awareness of the importance of open disclosure for staff, patients and people who use our services all of whom have a crucial role to play in open disclosure and in improving patient safety.
On the day, a new staff information poster for After Action Review and a patient information poster on Open Disclosure were launched by QRPS.
UHK is committed to increasing staff and public awareness of the
importance of their contribution to a culture of openness and
honesty, that is fair and just and that focuses on learning and
quality improvement following patient safety and notifiable
incidents.

15/10/2025

Wave of Light UHK 2025.
Join us tonight at 7pm in lighting a candle in remembrance of all babies lost through miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, fetal anomaly, stillbirth or neonatal death. Together in a powerful wave of light, we honour their memory and support their families.



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09/10/2025

Join the team at UHK.

We're hiring a Housekeeping Assistant (Domestic).

This campaign will close at 12 noon on Wednesday October 15, 2025.

Apply today: https://rezoomo.com/job/85659/




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