Local Authority To Invite HSE CEO For Major Discussion On Clare Healthcare Deficits

Clare County Council will invite the CEO of the HSE for a major discussion aimed at finding urgent solutions to local healthcare deficits. It comes on the back of record overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick last month, coupled with new data, which shows that 24% of all patients attending the Emergency Department are coming from Clare. The Health Service has recently rolled out new pre-hospital pathway ambulance services responding to low acuity calls in parts of this county within a forty-five-minute radius of UHL. However, Loop Head Fianna Fáil Councillor, Cillian Murphy believes extending such initiatives to rural areas could eliminate unnecessary ED presentations.