Adult services
University Hospital Limerick
St Nessan's Road, Dooradoyle, Limerick, Limerick, V94 F858
Phone: 061 482855
Email: linda.tucker@hse.ie
Internal Directions:
Inpatient services is ward based.
Outpatient services are delivered at consultant clinics or in Outpatients 3. To find Outpatients 3: Enter the hospital through the Outpatients Department, turn right and go to the end of the long corridor. At the end of the corridor turn right and go through 2 sets of double doors.
The dietitians office is straight ahead. It is to the right of the paediatric clinic and within the same unit as the diabetes department.
Opening hours:
8am to 5pm Monday to Friday
About Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics
Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics work with people who are nutritionally at risk because they are unwell and/or undergoing treatment that affects their nutritional status and their ability to eat or they have a medical condition that requires dietary intervention.
About Adult services
Dietitians in University Hospital Limerick provide adult inpatient and outpatient services to consultant referred patients for a wide variety of medical and surgical conditions. All referred inpatients are assessed and a careplan is provided. All referred outpatients are either assessed individually and a care plan is provided or they are invited to attend a group education session delivered by a dietitian.
Referrals and Appointments
Available to: Adults
Who needs to refer you: Consultant
How to access this service: E-referral
Special instructions for patients during COVID19
We may ask you to:
- attend a virtual clinic
- wear a face mask/other PPE
- complete a COVID-19 questionnaire by phone before coming to hospital and to repeat same on arrival
- to wait in their car until closer to your appointment time
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