A behind closed doors meeting between the UL Hospitals Group, MidWest Community Healthcare and a delegation of Clare councillors will take place in the coming weeks.
It follows an invitation extended to HSE CEO Bernard Gloster by the local authority which requested an “in camera workshop” to discuss service deficits facing this county.
Between January and September alone, a total of 13,067 patients from Clare presented at the Emergency Department in UHL.
Kilkee Fianna Fáil Councillor Cillian Murphy, who’s also a member of the Regional Health Forum West, believes this number could be significantly reduced by extending pre-hospital pathways to rural areas.
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