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Donegal GP questions government plan for healthcare

A Donegal GP has questions over government aspirations for the healthcare sector over the next few years. The HSE Service Plan for 2025 outlined that there aims to be an additional 300 beds introduced, in comparison to the programme for government aiming for 4,000 over the course of their term. ...

Donegal Doctor warns how rural areas will be impacted over lack of GP Practices

A Donegal General Practitioner has highlighted the impact that a lack of GPs in rural areas is having on communities.   This follows an investigative report by The Journal, where it highlighted that each GP has an average of 100 extra people in their catchment area.   Concerns are being raised a ...

Outpatient appointments to change under HSE plans

Outpatient appointments will take place on weekday evenings and Saturdays, under new HSE plans.It follows an increase in hospital consultants working over the St. Patrick's Day bank holiday weekend, in a bid to reduce overcrowding.HSE boss Bernard Gloster wants staff across the health service to ...

Donegal GP issues advice over measles on Sligo train

A Donegal GP has issued advice to anyone that may have been exposed to measles on Irish Rail recently. Passengers who spent more than 15 minutes in Carriage D on the Dublin Connolly to Sligo train last Friday may have contracted the infection. Anyone vaccinated against measles would be unlikely ...

Donegal GP's term as IMO president to come to an end

The Health Minister has come under fire as she is unable to attending the annual Irish Medical Organisation AGM this week.   The conference is usually addressed by whoever is in the ministerial role, but Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has opted out.   A spokeswoman said she had “a long-standing perso ...

Findings of the “Real Face of Men’s Health” report

Men are 40 per cent more likely to die prematurely than women, while 97 per cent of GPs say they saw male patients presenting with suicidal behaviour in the past year.   That’s according to the “Real Face of Men’s Health” report ahead of Movember, and joining Newstalk Breakfast to discuss the fi ...

Podcast Tuesday’s Nine Til Noon Show

The Nine Til Noon Show is broadcast, live Weekdays from 9am to 12noon- the podcast is below: We we hear calls for the expansion of the council’s road gritting service and hear of difficult traveling conditions across the county. There’s news of an increase in sexually transmitted infections an ...

Post-mortem service in ‘crisis'

Grieving families are increasingly having to delay burying relatives because of hold-ups in carrying out post-mortems in multiple counties.  Incoming president of the Coroners Society of Ireland Dr Denis McCauley raised the alarm and spoke to Claire about this ongoing situation this morning.

Sligo University Hospital continues to grapple with flu outbreaks

Sligo University Hospital continues to grapple with a number of flu outbreaks this week. On Friday, the hospital confirmed that staff had been battling five flu outbreaks in various wards at the hospital and visiting restrictions remain in place. Due to a sharp increase in flu cases in the commu ...

Backlog for coroner service

Dr Denis McCauley, President of Irish Coroners' Society   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.