BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
The BBC has learned that a water sculpture built as part of the £50m phase one redevelopment of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast has had to be closed.
Belfast Media | Home (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A row has broken out in the Royal Victoria Hospital over the swine flu vaccination. Non-medical staff claim they are being discriminated against and have been left “unprotected” after they were refused the swine flu vaccination. A domestic, who did not want to be named, said she was turned away when she went to get the jab in the week following October 21 when the hospital vaccination...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
By Bimpe Archer Irish News 27/10/09 WOUNDED: Above, the remains of the police car in which Mark Elwood, Trevor Elliot, and Neville Grey were travelling on May 18 1984 when the IRA detonated a 1,000lb landmine. Mr Elwood suffered years of ill health after the attack A FORMER police officer left partially blind and badly injured in an IRA bomb blast that killed two colleagues 25 years ago has died while...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Dissident republicans blamed for attack on police officer's girlfriend, who received minor injuries after device exploded A police officer's girlfriend was injured today when a bomb exploded under her car as she left his Belfast home. The 38-year-old woman was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital for minor injuries and was later discharged. She was reversing a red MX5 sports car out of the drive of...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
News Letter 05 October 2009 A POST mortem examination will be carried out following the sudden death of a man in a police station in Derry. John Brady, 40, who was jailed during the Troubles for murdering a policeman, was found dead in Strand Road PSNI station on Saturday evening. The car bomber from Strabane had been arrested on Friday night on assault charges understood to be related to a domestic...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
News Letter 05 October 2009 A BOOK highlighting the plight of people injured in the Northern Ireland Troubles is to be launched in Belfast by hostage negotiator Terry Waite. ' Injured… on that day ', which will be unveiled at the Royal Victoria Hospital on Tuesday, documents the stories of 15 people hurt in various ways and by various groups. Three of the people whose stories of suffering are...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Aine McEntee North Belfast News Every page of a new book published by the North Belfast based Wave Trauma Centre, called Injured On That Day , makes for humbling reading. The small but extremely important book features the stories of 15 individuals who suffered injury in the Troubles and it will be launched next week in the Royal Victoria Hospital where, poignantly, many received life-saving medical...
Belfast Media | Home (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Two people have been arrested after a man was shot five times in a paramilitary-style shooting in Twinbrook. On Tuesday night the 25-year-old victim opened the door of a flat in Summerhill Drive and was confronted by three men wearing masks. The man struggled with the trio, one of whom was armed with a handgun, before being pushed to the ground and shot. He sustained gunshot wounds to both calves,...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
The happy bespectacled face of Mary Frances Josephine “Mousie” Baird appears in metal at the climax of the Millennium railings on the Falls Road perimeter of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, representing 100 years of the institution on its present site. She has died at 102 after an active life – she thought it was “not bad” when as a 92- year-old she regularly journeyed...
workinproperty (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Galliford Try has been selected by NHS Grampian as the principal supply chain partner to design and build three new healthcare centres worth a total of £22.3 million in Forres, Moray and two Aberdeen based centres in Foresterhill and Whinhill. The contracts were procured under the new Framework Scotland arrangements now being used for healthcare projects in Scotland. Following an existing contract...
BIG BLUE WAVE (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
An article in the Montreal Gazette quotes Dr. Balfour Mount, the founder of Palliative Care services at the Royal Victoria Hospital: Unfortunately, most of the dying do not get palliative care or have access to optimum pain control, he said. Palliative experts have become very good at treating pain by switching and combining classes of medication so that most patients remain pain-free and alert. "So...
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
Ontario Tory MP Patrick Brown hosted and played in his second Hockey Night in Barrie charity game at the Barrie Molson Centre. The teams were a mix of Conservative MPs, past and present NHLers and some celebrities. The event raised $121, 000 for Barrie’s Royal Victoria Hospital. Team Blue won 15 to 13. Below, Labour Minister [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
A teenager is transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast following an attack in Londonderry.
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 07/17/2009
MONTREAL, July 17 (UPI) -- A Canadian hospital in Montreal has apologized to a woman and her husband who had no assistance in delivering a stillborn baby this month. The Royal Victoria Hospital issued the apology Thursday after Eliza Abbaszadeh contacted media about her experience on July 5, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported. The woman said she was 15 weeks pregnant and went to the hospital...
90 MINUTES OF SHEER BURRIDGE (Free subscription) | 07/05/2009
Eat yourself fitter Pictured above and absolutely nothing to do with what follows in this post: Bryn Schwodler, flanked by Mr & Mrs Rich 'Chinese Monkey' Allan. 68,000 patients needed treatment at the Royal Victoria hospital in Netley during World War 2. At 8pm next Wednesday 20 more names will need to be added to that list. By then Burridge would've finished their first pre-season training session...
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