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The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum said this week he was not “shocked” to learn that University Hospital Galway has been rated the worst performing hospital in the country again.

The budget for Mayo General Hospital has overrun by more than €2 million for the first seven months of the year, causing fears locally that services will be affected coming into the health service’s busiest time of the year.

The Minister for Health was welcomed to Kilkenny for a happy occasion last week when he visited the new state-of-the-art Primary Care Centre and Medical Park at Ayrfield on Friday.

The doctors of the Ayrfield Medical Park Practice (formerly the Dean St Practice) and Anna Marie Lanigan, HSE area manager for Carlow-Kilkenny/South Tipperary care, are hosting the official opening of Ayrfield Primary Care Centre today.

Providing more effective primary care in the community is one of the keys to easing the pressure on University Hospital Galway which is functioning on a “knife-edge”, Fine Gael senator Fidelma Healy Eames said this week.

People with multiple sclerosis in Galway and around the country could soon benefit from access to the world’s first prescription medicine derived from the cannabis plant.

People with multiple sclerosis in Galway and around the country could soon benefit from access to the world’s first prescription medicine derived from the cannabis plant.

A decision to move some non-critical functions from University Hospital Galway to other hospitals in the region this month will free up beds in wards at the city hospital and help reduce waiting times and overcrowding at its emergency department.

A local TD has written to HSE West boss John Hennessy demanding an explanation for the delay in recruiting 12 theatre nurses for University Hospital Galway.

Minister for Health Dr James Reilly must be commended for proposing to introduce groundbreaking legislation which will ban smoking in cars where children are present.