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Kidney transplants plummeted during pandemic, figures show

The number of kidney transplants fell significantly last year, new figures show. NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) said that there was a dramatic 32% fall in kidney transplants last year compared to pre-pandemic. Almost 4,600 people are currently ...

10 Mar 2022 at 01:25

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Tipperary sportswoman to represent Ireland at her fourth Euro Transplant Games

Tipperary’s Sheila Gregan along with fellow transplant and dialysis athletes from Dublin, Kildare, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Clare and Roscommon will participate in the European Transplant and Dialysis Games to be held in England from this Sunday ...

16 Aug 2022 at 14:33

Donors from Carlow wanted for human milk bank as Minister makes appeal

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Minister makes appeal for new donors for human milk bank

More donors are needed from Carlow and across Ireland for Northern Ireland’s only human milk bank – which helps premature and seriously ill babies, the health minister has said. Robin Swann visited the facility at the South West Acute Hospital ...

22 Aug 2022 at 20:33

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Well done: Tipperary athlete brings back bronze from European Transplant Games

Tipperary transplant athlete Sheila Gregan arrived back from this month’s European Transplant Games in the UK sporting a bronze medal she won in the 100m breaststroke. Sheila, who works for Ulster Bank in Nenagh, has been taking part in the ...

30 Aug 2022 at 19:33

Thousands of donors come forward to ease blood shortage

Thousands of people offered to donate blood in response to an amber alert over critically low stocks, NHS Blood and Transplant has said. Most appointments to donate blood this week are now fully booked, although the NHS is still appealing ...

13 Oct 2022 at 15:59

NHS makes ‘urgent’ call for black blood donors

The NHS has issued an urgent call for more black blood donors. NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) said that a record level of blood donations are now needed every day to treat people with sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease is ...

06 Oct 2022 at 01:01

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Nenagh woman to represent Ireland at World Transplant Games in Australia

Tipperary will be represented at the World Transplant Games as Nenagh's Sheila Gregan is set to travel down under to Australia to compete this year. Gregan, a kidney transplant recipient from Nenagh, will participate as part of ...

13 Mar 2023 at 15:33

Patients with major blood loss to get ‘whole blood transfusions’ in new trial

Patients who have lost a significant amount of blood as a result of accident or injury are to be given “whole blood transfusions” in a bid to improve their chances of survival. Evidence from army medics working in battlefields ...

14 Dec 2022 at 01:01

Thousands more ambulance workers set to join strikes over pay and staffing

Thousands more ambulance workers have voted to strike in the long-running dispute over pay and staffing. Unison said the growing NHS dispute will now cover ambulance services and other NHS organisations across most parts of ...

17 Feb 2023 at 13:20

Fresh strike by NHS workers across England next month

Ambulance and other health staff including nurses and blood collection workers are to stage a fresh strike in an escalation of industrial action in the long-running dispute over pay. Unison announced that its members will ...

22 Feb 2023 at 17:50

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Longford's JILLIAN tells of transplant joy

Three years is a long time in most people's book, but for cystic fibrosis campaigner Jillian McNulty it has seemed a nigh on eternity. It's a period in time the Longford native has spent large swathes of confined to ...

18 Sept 2022 at 11:33

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Tipperary woman to represent Ireland at World Transplant Games in Australia

13 Mar 2023 at 15:33

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