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A local advocate with the patient support group Patient Focus says it is important to remember that nursing homes are not institutions but “homes from homes” for people.

A leading local nursing union official is calling for a crisis summit on the health services to be convened immediately.

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.

A local patients’ advocate has warned that the hepatitis C scare - which has resulted in more than 450 former public hospital patients being offered screening after it emerged they may have been treated by a surgeon infected by the virus - may further rock public confidence in an “already shaky” HSE led health service.