Letterkenny Pathfinder

Good luck to all the Donegal team today...from Letterkenny Pathfinder. 🟢🟡🙏

Now that's a view we could never get bored off. #Ballymastocker #Portsalon #Donegal

The official photo has arrived!🥳 Thank you to all our key stakeholders for making the journey to Dublin for us, but mostly making this little dream become a reality. (Donegal GP/LUH lab managers/LUH hospital manager/Pathfinder team members & NAS managers -all pictured below)

@lawrence_kenna Thanks for all your guidance and support Lawrence.

Fantastic guys, as Cathal said ‘well deserved’ . Hopefully see this continued, supported and rolled out in other areas of the country.

🎊🎊🎊WINNER 🎊🎊🎊 National Innovation Award 'Best Hospital Avoidance' Thank you #sparksummit2025 for believing in our project as much as we did! We've achieved so much having you as our wingman. Here's to innovative healthcare🥂

We are delighted to announce we've made finalist for Best Hospital Avoidance!! 🥳Winners announced 11th June in Dublin Convention centre, Wish us luck.🍀#sparksummit2025

It's been a busy few months travelling Donegal and its islands. Though we're still making time to present our hard work locally, to #IPERN @UL and #ems2025 conference all while celebrating a few b'days along the way. No rest for the weary. Hopefully our new recruits will help🐬

@cathal1972 @AmbulanceNAS @European_EMS What an experience!! Great to see Pathfinder's work being shared at the European EMS.

Gary Gardiner of @AmbulanceNAS presenting research on point of care blood testing by Letterkenny Pathfinder team at EMS 2025 in Stockholm #ems2025 @European_EMS

@GaryGar10114613 @CatherineFeen11 @SiobhanMasters5 @cathy_donegal @LetterkennyEM @ProgrammeSpark @AmbulanceNAS @IPERN999 Well done Gary! Thanks for sharing the hard work.

Proud to take POC to the International stage at EMS Europe in Stockholm @CatherineFeen11 @PathfinderLUH @SiobhanMasters5 @cathy_donegal @LetterkennyEM @ProgrammeSpark @AmbulanceNAS @IPERN999

@GaryGar10114613 @AmbulanceNAS @PathfinderACP @CatherineFeen11 @RosaleenGreene_ @aoifebefa87 @cathy_donegal Hope you don't mind the photo Cathy- could not acknowledge all your hard work with securing our integration and collaboration for our Donegal patients.

@PathfinderLUH @AmbulanceNAS @PathfinderACP @CatherineFeen11 @RosaleenGreene_ @aoifebefa87 The fab 50..amazing journey so far with much more potential ahead for enhanced prehospital patent care

As 2024 closes, so does our pilot on POC blood testing. What a year & what a success for ACP in NAS! Thank you to everyone who has supported us. We're delighted to have achieved so much-with added integration of local cardiac team to avoid ED admissions. Now, lets gets writing!🥳

Go team, well deserved award🙌

Congratulations!🥳 Clinical Specialist OT Rosaleen Green, Principal Paramedicine Tutor Gary Gardiner and Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist Catherine Kelly accepted a 2nd place award on behalf of the Pathfinder Project Letterkenny at the Patient Flow Award Ceremony yesterday!

Wonderful initiative from #Pathfinder Letterkenny @PathfinderACP on Point of Care #POC blood testing in the home - so much potential! @AmbulanceNAS #PHECC24

Congratulations to @PathfinderLUH on this important project for Donegal. Great poster presentation and work progress @AssocEmergMedIE 2024. @SaoltaEd @AmbulanceNAS @HSEWestNorthWes @GaryGar10114613 @cathfoxkelly

Huge congratulations to Catherine Kelly, Gary Gardiner and the entire Donegal Pathfinder team, winners of best poster in the "Access and Integration" category in today's #HSEConference24. Well deserved recognition of their innovative work in bedside blood testing.

All about the press this week! 🎤Well done to Gary & Catherine speaking on Highland Radio earlier this morning highlighting the hard work our team has been doing. @AmbulanceNAS @PathfinderACP @saoltagroup @LetterkennyEM

And the best part of the job?? Seeing the difference we are making to our patients in their own homes. 🥳 @AmbulanceNAS @PathfinderACP @saoltagroup @LetterkennyEM

Raphoe couple Claire and Frank Laird have shared their experience of using the service in recent weeks. donegalnews.com/letterkenny-pa…