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Speaking at a Health Services Executive (South) forum meeting in Cork, Thomastown Councillor Michael O’Brien accused the HSE of dragging its feet on the provision of the planned Thomastown Primary Health Centre.

In the wake of the huge public outcry which followed the government's highly unpopular decision to abolish the automatic right to medical cards for the over 70s in last week's budget, the government this week announced a number of significant changes to the controversial plan.

A Mayo county councillor has stepped down from the HSE regional west forum in protest against the removal of breast cancer surgical and diagnostic services from Mayo General Hospital. Fine Gael Councillor Patsy O’Brien, the man who topped the poll in the Claremorris electoral area and received the highest number of votes of all candidates in Mayo in the June local elections, has not sought to be re-appointed to the health forum, having served on it since its inception. Cllr O’Brien told the Mayo Advertiser that the forum was “too political” and he expressed his disappointment in Mayo’s two Fianna Fáil TDs for not ensuring the services remained.

Mayo General Hospital has recently launched a paperless results service for GPs that uses the hospital’s laboratory services. This is a significant innovation and provides substantial benefits to patients and GP practices.

Strong emotions like depression, anxiety and anger are at the root of why so many people seek help from GPs, counsellors, psychotherapists or clinical psychologists. Despite their training many professionals are not good at dealing with the disruption that out of control emotions cause their clients. Some common forms of counselling, for example, are known to make depression and anxiety disorders worse. Conversely, the right type of counselling is known to be more effective than drug treatments for all of these conditions.

A former mayor and city councillor has described as “deplorable” and “scandalous” the HSE West’s decision to stop providing lunches to clients attending a day psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of the city.

Irish hoteliers have joined with Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism, Martin Cullen TD, to launch the 2009 Be Our Guest Guide and kick start the Irish Hotels Federation’s (IHF) international marketing drive for 2009. Now in its 22nd edition, the guide is renowned as Ireland’s largest tourist accommodation listing, featuring almost 1,000 hotels and guesthouses from every county, including 35 in County Mayo. Over 300,000 guides will be distributed in 22 countries in the coming months, acting as a key marketing tool in promoting Ireland at home and abroad.

According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation there are 21 people being treated on trolleys at Mayo General Hospital today out of 435 nationwide. The HSE say the hospital’s emergency department is under pressure and has advised patients to attend their GPs our GP out of hours service if it is not an absolute emergency. Some elective admissions have been postponed. Contact the hospital for information.

A major increase in the number of mumps cases in the west has resulted in the HSE West advising teenagers and young adults to ensure that they have had two doses of the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine to avoid contracting the infection. The number of reported mumps cases in Galway, Mayo and Roscommon rocketed from 18 last year to 258 by mid December this year.

Westdoc, the out of hours GP service, is appealing to people to only contact it if they require urgent GP medical care over the festive period.