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A city businesswoman, a rural GP and the former president of the Volvo Ocean Race finale are among the non-executive directors of the Board of the Galway and Roscommon University Hospitals Group.

An internationally renowned English surgeon will deliver the memorial lecture at Ireland’s largest surgical conference to be hosted by NUI Galway from September 2 to 3.

There are no plans to centralise maternity services in the southeast in a dedicated centre of excellence as there is simply no financing available for this type of project.

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.

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.

“Outrageous” is how the chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum has described the fact that a 94-year-old Connemara widow and great grandmother of 34 children had to spend two nights on a trolley at UHG’s A&E department.

Cllr Ken Glynn has called for dermatology services to be retained at the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, amid fears that the dermatology clinic may be relocated to another midland hospital.

People in Galway will fight tooth and nail to oppose any attempt to downsize Portiuncula Hospital, vpwed FG deputy Paul Connaughton last evening.

A decision regarding the future organisation of St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny and acute hospital services in the south-east is to be made in coming months but fears are that Kilkenny may lose two of its vital departments.