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A meeting held between HSE management and concerned local politicians to help allay mounting public fears that Portiuncula Hospital may be downgraded was positive but much still needs to be done to put people’s minds at rest.

If Portiuncula Hospital’s emergency department has its opening hours scaled down then University Hospital Galway which is already “bursting at the seams” will be forced to deal with the overflow.

A week after Minister Mary Harney made a commitment to staff at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe that the HSE would engage them in consultation about the future of the hospital, unions said yesterday (Thursday) they had not yet had any contact from the health services.

Industrial action was lifted at Portiuncula Hospital earlier this week following agreement between the nursing union, the Irish Nurses’ Organisation, and the HSE West.

The HSE is counting the cost of the Big Freeze with a large number of hospitals reporting increases of up to 70 per cent in the number of people presenting with fractures recently.

Concerned councillors urged both sides to get together to try to resolve the ongoing dispute involving five nurse managers at Portiuncula Hospital which has reached “crisis” point.

The Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, is one of the three highest performing hospitals in the country, according to the HSE’s first ever ‘league tables’ for hospitals.