Pain Medicine

A new walk–in pain service was set up in St. Michael's Hospital, Dun Laoghaire.

168 patients were treated and 221 procedures were carried out. This was carried out with the support of Mr. N. Jermyn Group CEO and under the guidance of Ms. Mary Shore this process was set up in St. Michael's Hospital. A special post of Coordinator of this programme was created and was very well managed by Ms. Lisa Naughton. The programme ran for three months from late September to mid-December. Our thanks to Mr. Mervyn Hollywood for coordinating the nursing to this programme and due to his unstinting efforts we almost had a full quota of nurses for each day period who provided this service on Mondays, half day Tuesdays and half day Thursday.

Significant Publication

Presentation by Dr. Declan O'Keeffe. to the Pan Pacific meeting in Sydney in August 2005 entitled Use of New Technologies in the area of Neuro Modulation.

Director:

Dr. Declan O’Keeffe

Consultants:

Dr. Hugh Gallagher

Dr. Ray Victory

Clinical Psychologist:

Dr. Rosemary Walsh

0.5 WTE Physiotherapist:

Martine Darcy

Jane Dawson

0.5WTE Occ. Therapist:

Amanda Wallace

Shannon Barr

Caroline Burke

Pain Management Co-ordinator:

Laura Hamilton

Secretary to Pain Programme:

Sarah Brady