The HSE is awaiting Cabinet sign off to extend operating hours at the Ennis Medical Assessment Unit to a 24/7 service.
Government had initially pledged to implement the measure last April as a means of alleviating overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick following a private members motion on the matter.
It’s among a series of ‘interventions’ to be rolled out in the MidWest under the HSE’s National Service Plan, along with a new step-down care facility at Nenagh.
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Responding to Clare Fine Gael Senator Martin Conway at the Oireachtas Health Committee, HSE CEO Bernard Gloster says the expansion of services at Ennis, Nenagh and St.Johns should happen soon.
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