Neuro-physiologist, Staff Grade, University Hospital

Cork University Hospital (CUH) is the largest acute hospital in the country. The hospital is a primary teaching hospital with close alliances to University College Cork (UCC), nursing, medical and allied health professional training. The hospital also plays a central role in the management of co-located services on-site.

CUH is the largest university teaching hospital in Ireland and the only Level 1 Trauma Centre in the country – an accreditation given with the presence of 40 different medical and surgical specialities delivered by the hospital – including Neurosciences, Cardiac Services, Orthopaedics, General Surgery, Renal, Internal Medicine, Vascular, Ophthalmology, Urology, Plastic Surgery, Maxillary-Facial, Paediatrics, Critical Care, Cancer Services, and Emergency Medicine.

CUH is the tertiary referral Centre for the HSE Southern area, and the supra-regional area of Limerick, Clare, Tipperary, Waterford and Kilkenny. CUH therefore acts as a regional Centre for secondary and tertiary care for the catchment population of 550,000 served by the HSE Southern area and a supra-regional Centre for a total population of 1.1 million.

CUH now has 800 beds following the completion of the transfer of Cardiac and Renal services to the recently constructed Cardiac Renal Centre. The hospital currently employs 3,400 staff of multiple professions and is the primary teaching hospital for the Faculty of Health and Science in UCC.

CUH provides the only consultant lead clinical neurophysiology service outside of Dublin. Our neurophysiology service is unique in that we provide all aspects- NCS/EMG (adult and Paediatric), EEG (adult, Paediatric, neonatal, ICU, telemetry, sleep-deprived and routine), evoked potentials, small fibre testing and intraoperative neuromonitoring and autonomic testing.

We currently provide a service to almost every medical and surgical team in the hospital. Highest demand comes through the following services:

- Neurology

- Neurosurgery

- Orthopaedics

- Paediatrics

- ICU/critical care

- Emergency department and MAU

- Rheumatology

- Medicine for the elderly

- Vascular surgery

Informal Enquiries:

Dr Brian McNamara, Consultant Neurophysiologist, Cork University Hospital

Email: brian.mcnamara@hse.ie

Telephone: 086-1702569

Beth Hackett, Business Manager, Cork University Hospital

Email: beth.hackett@hse.ie

Telephone: 087-7102370