ANNUAL REVIEW master Final3a - St Vincent's University Hospital

Service Developments
Neurology in the Ambulatory Day Care Centre (ADCC).
The move to the new ADCC allowed the development of a new rota of Neurology Outpatient services in
2006. This involves public neurology clinics twice a day and has already improved the service dramatically.
In 2008 we will see over 6000 outpatients. We have reduced the waiting times substantially as part of our
continued waiting list initiative.
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We now have Specialist Clinics for Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Neuroinflammation, and a
Dystonia/Botulinum Toxin Clinic.
We are running Special Therapy Clinics to facilitate patients who otherwise might require hospitalisation. We
saw over 1000 people in the ADCC for procedures such as lumbar punctures and for administration of
therapies that would previously have required the sue of Day Ward facilities and thus have contributed to
huge savings for the hospital and the Health Service as a whole.
We have a dedicated secretary (Orla Bannon) to (always cheerfully!) check patients in and we have a number
of other initiatives planned to make sure that attendance at the clinics are less stressful. Orla has worked
hard with Radiology and Niamh Gaffney to deal with the long waiting list for outpatient MRIs and we are
employing the NTPF currently to obtain MRI scans for those outpatients waiting more than 3 months for a
scan with great success.
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