Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, pictured with the Mayor of Limerick John Moran and (right) Patrick O’Donovan, Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport. Picture: Don Moloney A DECISION will be made before Christmas on whether a new hospital will be built in Ennis, the Minister for Health has confirmed.
THREE OPTIONS to improve emergency healthcare in the Mid-West have been presented to the Minister for Health by HIQA including the construction of a new model-three hospital in the region.
*Dr Catherine Peters. SENIOR MEDICS at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) have expressed confidence that their views will be taken on board for HIQA’s review into urgent and emergency care in the Mid-West.
*Minister Jennifer Carroll McNeill. A FURTHER delay to HIQA’s major report in potentially providing a solution to overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick has seen its publication pushed back until autumn.
*Ennis Hospital. FIGHTING to get an emergency department for Ennis represents “the opportunity of a lifetime” for politicians in the county.
*Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll McNeill (FG) on her visit to UHL. Photograph: Don Moloney NO COMMITMENTS will be made by the Minister for Health on the provision and location of a second emergency department in the Mid-West until a HIQA review is completed in May.
*Ennis Hospital was on the agenda during the meeting. MEMBERS of Friends of Ennis Hospital on Wednesday morning met with representatives from the HIQA review team where they said the provision of a model four hospital in Ennis should also include a maternity wing.
*Cllr Rita McInerney (FF). Photograph: Eugene McCafferty PARTICIPATION from the people of Clare in the public engagement of HIQA’s review of emergency care in the Mid-West “is a critical chance” to highlight the message on the need for more services, a Doonbeg representative has said.
*Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly (FF). Photograph: Brian Arthur HIQA’s review into the potential for a second emergency department in the Mid-West region must be published before next summer, county councillors have stressed.
*Ennis Hospital. HEALTH activists and politicians in Clare have said it is “inevitable” that a HIQA review will recommend the creation of a second emergency department in the Mid-West region.