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Leading hospital consultants are urging the public to “stand up and support” Merlin Park Hospital amid fears that most of the facility will be closed down by the HSE in the next few weeks as part of cost cutting measures to help the authority balance its books.

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 chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum is calling for a public inquiry into baby scan errors at University Hospital Galway which could have resulted in the lives of two unborn children being terminated.

Public cancer patients from Kilkenny and across the southeast will not be treated at the Whitfield Clinic in Waterford unless they are existing patients from April 1.The decision taken by the clinic follows months of negotiations between the clinic and the HSE whereby the clinic was attempting to negotiate a new contract from 2010.

Judge John Neilan is accusing the clinical director of St Loman’s Psychiatric Hospital in Mullingar of misleading the court.

There are no plans to curtain A&E services at Mayo General Hospital, according to assurances given in the Dáil to Beverley Flynn TD.

The HSE was last evening attempting to contact all patients affected by potential misdiagnoses at UHG following reports of discrepancies in the work of a third pathologist who worked as a locum at the hospital in February and March 2004.

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.

The Minister for Health Mary Harney in Kilkenny on Monday complimented St Luke’s Hospital and its staff for its unique can-do attitude which she says ‘sums up the spirit of St Luke’s Hospital’.

The Westdoc out-of-hours GP service is reminding patients over the festive season that the service is only for those who require urgent GP medical care.