Hospital Services
The Mater Hospital has 236 beds and provides a comprehensive range of services:
- General Medicine, including Haematology, Gastroenterology, Diabetes, and Cardiology;
- General Surgery, including Vascular Surgery.
- A regional Hepatobiliary Service which attracts referrals from throughout Northern Ireland.
- Urology is available on a day case, inpatient and outpatient basis. There are over 300 Urology day cases and 500 inpatients per annum. Outpatient services include a frank haematuria clinic.
- The hospital holds a Charter Mark for its Psychiatric services including Day Hospital and Psychogeriatrics. It provides inpatient, day attendance and outpatient services to North and West Belfast. There are 55 inpatient psychiatric beds on the Mater hospital site. Day attendances (a nurse led service) take place at Alexandra Gardens Day Hospital. These include: cognitive behavioural therapy, one-to-one counselling, group work, relaxation classes and occupational therapy.
- The Ophthalmology service has been awarded the Charter Mark twice. There are around 2,000 day cases per year in addition to weekly outpatient clinics.
- ENT
- Obstetrics, Neonatology and Gynaecology Services. This specialty has also been awarded a Charter Mark for its services. It includes a 23 bedded maternity unit and a 12 bedded gynaecology unit. In addition to Midwife care, a Breastfeeding Counsellor also aims to promote the rate of mothers who breastfeed and provided a flexible parentcraft programme.
- Intensive Care Unit
- An Accident & Emergency Department is open 24 hours per day
- Day Procedure Unit a new £16 million inpatient and day procedures unit opened in 2001
- A well equipped Radiology department which now includes a new MRI Unit, recently opened in January 2007
The Trust has also been awarded Charter Marks for Excellence in Maternity Services (awarded twice), Psychiatric Services and Ophthalmology.
From 1999 to 2000 the Mater Hospital cared for:-
- 44,844 Accident and Emergency Patients
- 64,300 Outpatient Patients
- 13084 Inpatients and 3957 Day cases
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