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A new approach in healthcare for people in Kilkenny City was launched during the week by HSE chief executive Prof Brendan Drumm at the Dean St Medical Practice premises.

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

Sinn Féin local election candidate for the Piltown electoral area, Peadar de Bluit has responded to the revelations that HSE executive Brendan Drumm lobbied Health Minister Mary Harney for massive pay rises to attract senior executives from the private sector the sums paid out were “grotesque and driven by greed”.

Elderly residents of Bethany House can breathe a sigh of relief that their home is safe, for now. However, some members of Carlow Town Council are still concerned about the future of the home and its 28 residents.

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.

More hospital beds are expected to be freed up nationally with the introduction of a new discharge system.

City mayor Cllr Padraig Conneely claimed this week that people did not have confidence in the way in which the HSE West handled the Roscommon child abuse case.

The HSE West has been told it must deliver the same standard of efficiencies and care as it did last year, but by spending €30 million less. No mean feat one would say, but that has been the task given to the health authority in the west.

Tick, tick, tick...watch the hands move around the face of the clock, the two senior hands watching as the frantic second hand makes its way around the face, down the bottom and up the hill towards the completion of another minute. Another minute. An Irish minute in which another person has just been told she has lost her job.

Cllr Ken Glynn has called for dermatology services to be retained at the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, amid fears that the dermatology clinic may be relocated to another midland hospital.