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The HSE West should consider imposing financial penalties on hospital consultants who delay signing off private health insurance claims, a member of the health authority’s regional health forum said this week.

Some 330 children, outpatients at University Hospital Galway, have been left in the “lurch” because a paediatric urologist’s contract has not been renewed.

Health Minister Mary Harney has given a firm commitment that Portiuncula Hospital’s A&E service will not be reduced.

Comments made by Health Minister Mary Harney about the Brothers of Charity earlier this week could cause internal strife and were an insult to families providing care for family members with disabilities, the chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum said this week.

The process of electing a new chairman of HSE West, the health forum that represents Mayo, Galway, Roscommon, Sligo, Leitrim, Clare, and Limerick, took all of 30 seconds at the AGM this week when sitting chair Cllr Padraig Conneely, Fine Gael, and former Mayor of Galway, was re-elected unanimously without contest.

The HSE West apologised this week to a 94-year-old Connemara great-grandmother of 34 children who had to spend two nights on a trolley at UHG’s A&E department.

The Government’s crackdown on a range of psychoactive substances sold in head shops, which has resulted in many of these outlets closing, at least temporarily, may drive these businesses underground, the chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum has warned.

Education programmes in secondary schools may be the key to fighting the growing popularity of “head shops” in towns and cities throughout the country, according to former mayor Cllr Padraig Conneely.

Mayor Padraig Conneely has hit out at the sale of replica guns in Galway city, claiming it “sends out the wrong message” and could lead to an increase in crime in the city.

The new chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum is calling for the return of hospital matrons to help in the fight against hospital acquired infections.