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Patients in Kilkenny will benefit from easier access to consultants in cardiology, orthopaedics, urology and vascular and general surgery, at the newly opened UPMC satellite centre, UPMC Beacon Waterford. The outreach clinic was officially opened on Thursday, October 27 at an education event for local GPs.

The appointment of three new consultants at Galway University Hospitals will help the facilities develop additional clinical services, the clinical director of the Galway/ Roscommon Hospital Group Dr David O’Keeffe said this week.

Plans for the long awaited upgrade of several departments in St Luke’s General Hospital were revealed earlier this week at a media briefing at the Education Centre at the hospital. The new development is expected to get underway in September of this year.

Kilkenny’s St Luke’s Hospital was delivered some positive news this week when it was confirmed that some €13m funding is to be made available in order to enable a number of priority capital developments at the hospital.

A number of consultants at University Hospital Galway have sought an urgent meeting with Government politicians in the wake of the resignation of colorectal surgeon Mr Myles Joyce last week over the hospital’s failure to provide him with adequate theatre time.

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum is calling for the health authority to fasttrack the appointment of a new manager for University Hospital Galway in the wake of the facility’s poor showing in the HSE’s latest league tables.

A spokeswoman for the HSE has confirmed that waiting times for outpatient appointments at the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, are "well below" the seven months national average waiting time.

The average waiting time for all specialties at the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar is now 1.9 months. 

The HSE has rejected reports that it is closing 41 beds in the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, following suggestions that some senior doctors at the hospital believe the facility is unsafe.

More than 100 Mayo patients are treated each week at the oncology unit of Mayo General Hospital, Beverley Flynn TD has been informed.