by Louise Doyle CONCERN has emerged that physiotherapy patients will face up to one year for an appointment, as the Letterkenny department is working 60 per cent below staffing capacity. A letter by a senior manager to GPs, seen by the Donegal News, outlines the bleak position for patients and staff within the department. Full story in today’s edition […]
Donegal GPs given communication assurances
GPs in Donegal have been given assurances that lines of communication with Letterkenny University Hospital will be improved and kept open. “That’s always a challenge but it’s certainly an area that we needed to do more work on, and we will be doing more work on,” Saolta CEO, Tony Canavan, told the Donegal News. Health […]
Doctors warn testing and tracing is only way forward
“We are a Primary Care centre and the outbreak of seven confirmed cases was in the Outpatient unit above us. It could have been disastrous”
Hundreds fail to attend hospital appointments
The DNA figures vary week by week and can range from 75 to 129. In the month of June we had 424 patients who DNA. Last week it was 110.
Overcrowding at Letterkenny Hospital not sustainable
Special emergency and immediate measures are now required at Letterkenny University Hospital – INMO
GMS practices in Donegal were paid over €40 million
THE General Medical Services (Payments) Board Annual Report, 2013 shows that more than €40 million was made in payments to GPs, Pharmacists, Dentists and Optometrists in Donegal.
GPs meet over threatened collapse of the NOWDOC service
OVER 50 family doctors from the North West met in Donegal Town last night to discuss the threatened collapse of the NOWDOC service.
GPs across Donegal earned over €22.5m
FAMILY doctors across Donegal earned more than €22.5 million for the care of patients under the medical card and other state schemes in 2011.