The Medical Social Worker’s role is to assist patients and their families with any psychological, emotional, social or practical difficulties during their hospital stay. The team work as part of the hospital’s multidisciplinary teams incorporating our medical, nursing and Health and Social Care colleagues.

The clinical services division represents a subset of eight departments that provide a range of therapeutic, diagnostic and patient-focused services across Beaumont Hospital and the St Joseph’s Campus.

Our Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Department (MPCE) provide expert scientific and engineering support to Beaumont Hospital and provides external medical physics service to other public hospitals. We provide a wide range of specialised scientific and technical services to ensure exceptional patient care.

The Department of Nutrition and Dietetics provides evidence-based nutrition support to inpatients, outpatients and those attending day services in Beaumont hospital. We aim to use the most up-to-date health and scientific research on food, health and disease which we translate to help people make the appropriate lifestyle and food choices for their health. We provide dietetic services as part of the hospitals multidisciplinary approach to patient care, to a wide range of specialities.

The Occupational Therapy (OT) Department provides a high quality service to people with physical, psychological and social problems to enable them to maximise their function. Occupational therapists help people to do the everyday activities that they want and need to do when faced with illness, injury, and disability or challenging life event.

The Pharmacy Department purchases, stores and supplies all medicines used within the hospital and provides information on them. Our staff includes pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, student pharmacists and pharmacy technician students, clerical support and supplies officers.

FITT has been a core element of the management of older adults who present to Beaumont Hospitals’ Emergency Department (ED) since 2015. The Frailty Intervention Therapy Team aim to triage every older patient who presents to ED. The service is available between 08:00 and 18:00. This inter-disciplinary screening process is completed within 1 hour of presentation, unless contraindicated medically. This facilitates timely FITT assessment in ED and initiation of the appropriate treatment pathway, whether a person requires admission or can be discharged home.

We are a team of professionals eager to help patients of Beaumont Hospital live full and rewarding lives. We provide many services to inpatients and outpatients of Beaumont Hospital including research, assessments and interventions specifically designed to give us good information and get good results.