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The local acute hospital system remains under "severe pressure", the like of which it has never experienced before, Tony Canavan, the chief executive of the Saolta University Health Care Group, which runs the seven public hospitals in the west and north-west of the country, said this week. There are more people hospitalised now with Covid-19 than at any other time during the pandemic.

It could take up to five years before University Hospital Galway has a new emergency department.

The HSE West stressed this week that the reorganisation of public hospitals into hospital groups will result in greater efficiency, accountability and improved outcomes for patients. The groups come as a transition to independent hospital trusts.

The HSE South has accepted the resignation of Dr Colm Quigley from his role as clinical lead for the Reconfiguration of Acute Hospital Services in the southeast.