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A local city councillor and former vice chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum has challenged Galway’s Government TDs to honour a commitment they gave to seek a meeting with Health Minister Dr James Reilly about the need to keep St Francis’ Nursing Home open.

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 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.

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.

A Kilkennyman is one of five people, including the Minister for Health James Reilly, being sued in connection with an alleged failure to buy their co-owners’ share of a nursing home in County Tipperary.

Local TD Brian Walsh is to meet Health Minister Dr James Reilly in a bid to fasttrack the appointment of a hearing specialist locally.

More resources must be allocated to University Hospital Galway to meet growing demands being placed on it as a result of the recent decision to close Roscommon County Hospital’s A&E department and shift all its acute emergency services to hospitals in the surrounding areas.

A Mayo cancer patient who has been waiting months for vital surgery was devastated to learn this week that her wait will be increased by at least another month.