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A local city councillor is calling for the resignation of Health Minister Mary Harney in the wake of recent reports that further budgetary cutbacks would result in the loss of 60 beds, 126 staff and two theatres at University Hospital Galway.

That is the explanation according to the Oxford English Dictionary. But what is it that determines whether or not something is urgent these days?

The number of patients availing of breast care services annually at University Hospital Galway has almost doubled in the past four years.

The majority of Athlone’s pharmacists have announced they are to close their doors to the public from August 1, following their decision to stop dispensing prescription medicines on that date.

Pharmacists have hit out at State health chiefs claiming they are trying to cover up a looming crisis in the supply of medicine. The Irish Pharmacy Union has slammed a list published by the HSE of chemists who will continue to dispense drugs during a planned stoppage, claiming the list is inaccurate and includes one Galway pharmacy which closed three months ago.

Pharmacists in Kilkenny are looking at a bleak and uncertain future if the Minister for Health does not agree to enter into negotiations with pharmacists who are refusing to fill prescriptions under the medical card scheme and state drugs scheme from tomorrow.

It would be easy to write an editorial this week about how it is time for Mary Harney to step up to the plate or step down. I’m not usually critical of Minister Harney, I think she’s a brave woman for taking on the health portfolio, but I think new ideas are needed in our health service, with a new leader to boot.

Sixteen Mayo pharmacies which were incorrectly listed on the HSE website, as pharmacies that will continue to administer under the Community Drug Scheme from Saturday, shows the utter “incompetence” of the HSE according to one irate local pharmacist. The pharmacist, who did not want to be named, was included in this incorrect list and condemned this “incredible” error on the HSE’s behalf which is only “adding to the public’s confusion” about where they can avail of their community drugs scheme medication.

A local city councillor and former vice chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum has lashed out at the health authority’s decision to continue with its plans to centralise the processing of medical cards to Dublin.

The Minister for Health and the pharmacists are once again on a “collision course” with the sick and the poor, according to Labour spokesperson for Enterprise, Trade & Employment, Willie Penrose.