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The former chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum is calling on Health Minister Leo Varadker to ensure a successor is appointed promptly to fill the position being vacated by the head of the West North West Hospitals Group.

Fears about the future of the maternity unit at Mayo General Hospital continued to grow as new details emerged this week about the confidential draft review of services that is under way at hospitals in the west and northwest.

More than 43,000 referrals were made to University Hospital Galway’s cancer centre last year.

The board of the West/North West Hospitals Group met in Mayo General Hospital this week. This was the sixth meeting of the board this year and the first visit of the board to Mayo.

The former Managing Director of Allergan Ireland Colam O’Neill has been appointed as a non-executive director to the board of the hospital group for the West/North West.

The former Managing Director of Allergan Ireland Colam O’Neill has been appointed as a non-executive director to the board of the hospital group for the West/North West.

Mayo General Hospital is to be included in one of six new hospital groups being formed. The Castlebar facility will form part of a new hospital group in the west and northwest along with University Hospital Galway, Merlin Park, Sligo Regional Hospital, Letterkenny General Hospital, Portiuncula Hospital, and Roscommon County Hospital.

The hospital group responsible for running public hospitals in Galway and Roscommon has cleared a waiting list of almost 14,000 inpatients over a nine month period.

The Galway and Roscommon University Hospital Group is taking a multi-faceted approach to tackling absenteeism with a focus on maximising attendance, providing supportive structures for staff who, either as a result of the working environment or in the course of natural life events, become ill, and by addressing any inappropriate use of sick leave schemes.

Reducing overtime and agency spending and optimising income collection from private health insurance companies are ways being earmarked by the HSE West to help it cut costs and meet its reduced budget this year.