*Members of the public listening to Senator Timmy Dooley (FF) at a public meeting in Newmarket-on-Fergus. Photograph: Joe Buckley NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS’ GP practice will continue to operate out of Carrigoran until December, the Minister for Health has said.
*Criticism of the GP’s absence from Monday’s public meeting was heard. Photograph: Joe Buckley MINISTER FOR HEALTH, Stephen Donnelly (FF) has met with representative of the Newmarket-on-Fergus Community Forum on the future of a GP in the parish while TDs have said the contract with the current GP should be revoked if plans to take …
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*A section of the crowd at the public meeting in Newmarket-on-Fergus. Photograph: Joe Buckley NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS needs a medical service fitting of its big and growing population, a public meeting has heard.
NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS is to begin the fight of trying to keep its medical practice within the parish.
An appointment of a GP in Newmarket-on-Fergus must not be hit with further delays, a Clare TD has outlined.
*Attendees at a community forum in Newmarket-on-Fergus. Photograph: Joe Buckley GP services are to return to the village of Newmarket-on-Fergus in the near future.
Interviews for the appointment of a permanent GP in Newmarket-on-Fergus will be held over the next two to three weeks.
*A section of the crowd that attended Monday’s community forum in Newmarket-on-Fergus. Photograph: Joe Buckley Confidence has been expressed by Clare’s Junior Minister that a new GP will be in place in Newmarket-on-Fergus very soon despite locals raising their concerns at the drawn out process of securing a replacement doctor.
Newmarket-on-Fergus will continue to be without a GP until early 2020 at the earliest with concern growing in the parish due to the gradual decline in services and amenities.
Clare TD, Joe Carey has slammed the HSE over an “outdated and cumbersome” system for appointing GPs which has resulted in Newmarket-on-Fergus being left without a family doctor.
