The Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore transferred to a new building in December 2008, and the Emergency Department is a modern and up to date facility. It is the largest Emergency Department in the Midlands.
It is currently staffed by 8 Consultants in Emergency Medicine, 3 Specialist Registrars in Emergency Medicine, 10 registrars in Emergency Medicine, 3 trainees on the Core Speciality Training Programme in Emergency Medicine (CSTEM), 3 General Practice Trainees, and 3 senior house officers. Three other CSTEM trainees from the department are on rotation in General Internal Medicine, Anaesthesia and Paediatrics at any one time.
The Emergency Department has been accredited with distinction by the Irish Committee for Emergency Medicine Training following the most recent training inspection in June 2024. The Department has won the Irish Emergency Medicine Trainees Association (IEMTA) Wellbeing Award four years in a row from 2021 to 2025. This award is voted by the trainees themselves, and reflects our dedication to providing a worthwhile and enjoyable work environment.
Subspeciality interests of the consultants include medical education, simulation, musculoskeletal medicine, pre-hospital emergency care and emergency ultrasound.
The Emergency Department has 3 resuscitation cubicles, 14 general cubicles, 1 negative pressure isolation room, 3 other isolation rooms, 2 ambulatory assessment rooms, and an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) Room. The ANP service runs 8am to 8pm 7 days a week. Attendances in 2024 were 45,072 and continues to rise. As a consequence, there is a planned expansion for the ED in conjunction with 72 new acute hospital beds. The ED will be one of the biggest in the country once the expansion is complete.
The Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore is a 232-bed acute hospital and is the regional trauma unit with a bypass protocol in place to enable appropriate patients to be brought directly to the hospital. It is also the regional centre for Orthopaedics, Ear Nose and Throat Surgery, Haematology, Oncology, Rheumatology and Renal Medicine.
The Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore has a large state-of the art education centre. The centre has multiple tutorial rooms and lecture theatres. The onsite hospital library is the largest in the Midlands, and provides services such as poster printing, 3D printing and a Maker’s Lab, in addition to the usual medical reference books and online resources. The onsite Clinical Skills Area includes a simulation room with control room, a viewing room and a large collection of manikins and clinical skills task trainers that cover most clinical specialties on site.