Urgent care centre pilot proposed for Ennis Hospital
A NATIONAL policy proposal has been issued to the Minister for Health and senior figures in the HSE to establish enhanced urgent care centre pilot sites in Ennis and Roscommon.
A NATIONAL policy proposal has been issued to the Minister for Health and senior figures in the HSE to establish enhanced urgent care centre pilot sites in Ennis and Roscommon.
*Clare TD, Joe Cooney (FG) with Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG). CLARE’s chances of having a new acute hospital built remain slim following the Minister for Health’s first official visit to the county.
Minister Carroll MacNeill is pictured here with John Moran, Mayor of Limerick, and Bernard Gloster CEO HSE. Photograph: Don Moloney MINISTER FOR Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG) has agreed to meet a Clare-based health campaign group following the decision not to build a new hospital in the county.
CO CLARE has been overlooked again with a new hospital to be built in Limerick to ease the burden on University hospital Limerick (UHL).
*Chairperson of Friends of Ennis Hospital, Angela Coll. Photograph: Tom Micks. AN ANNOUNCEMENT is to be made before St Patrick’s Day on whether the Mid-West’s new hospital will be located in Clare, Limerick or Tipperary.
*Dr Tom Nolan. Photograph: Tom Micks. CLARE’s politicians have “let us down” when it comes to fighting for better health services in the county.
*Cathal Crowe TD (FF). Photograph: Tom Micks A CLARE TD was told to sit down “and please put down the microphone” when attempting to speak at a public meeting discussing the future of healthcare in the Mid-West region.
HEALTH MINISTER, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG) is among the invited guests for a public meeting in Ennis this Monday.
*Friends of Ennis Hospital Chairperson, Angela Coll. ANY POTENTIAL new hospital in Co Clare must be located in the environs of the Ennis Municipal District, a public meeting on healthcare in the region has heard.
*Friends of Ennis Hospital Chairperson Angela Coll with PJ Cunningham. Photograph: Martin Connolly EFFORTS of health campaigners across Clare has paid off with sustained advocacy giving the county a shot of being the location for a new hospital with an emergency department.