The HSE wish to advise that NowDoc GP Out of Hours Service is currently very busy and experiencing a high volume of calls at present. Urgent calls are prioritised and are dealt with first. The HSE ask for your patience due to the longer wait times. The NowDoc Service, which is a partnership between the […]
NoWDOC experiencing high volume of calls
THE HSE has advised that the NoWDOC GP Out of Hours Service in Donegal is currently very busy and experiencing a high volume of calls. In a statement this afternoon a HSE spokesperson said: “Urgent calls are prioritised and are dealt with first. We ask for your patience due to the longer wait times.” The […]
Letterkenny University Hospital is ‘extremely busy’
In a statement issued this afternoon, hospital management said there is ongoing pressure on bed availability in the hospital.
NoWDOC release details of Christmas arrangements
The NoWDOC GP Out of Hours Service has published its arrangements for Christmas 2020 by the HSE. NoWDOC provides urgent out-of-hours GP care for patients of participating practices in Donegal and south Leitrim. The service operates when surgeries close in the evening and over the course of weekends and public holidays. The NoWDOC Service Manager, […]
Almost 7,000 calls to NoWDOC GP Out of Hour service
Some 6997 calls were received by the service in the month of December, reflecting an increase of 24% on the same period in 2015.
Hundreds attend protest against NoWDOC cuts
HUNDREDS of protesters marched behind a coffin in Letterkenny on Friday afternoon to protest against proposed changes to the operating hours of the NoWDOC service from West to North Donegal. The current service operates from three centres across north and west Donegal in Letterkenny, Carndonagh and Derrybeg.
Future NowDoc services under discussion
The HSE has moved to allay people’s fear with regard to possible changes to the NowDoc service in Donegal being discussed at present.
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.
Uncertainty over NOWDoc Red Eye Service
CONCERN was growing yesterday over the future shape of the Out-of-Hours GP Service ‘NOWDoc’. Sinn Féin Donegal South West TD, Deputy Pearse Doherty, said it was ‘concerning’ that ‘Caredoc’, who together with the HSE provide the NOWDoc Service, has indicated that it plans to withdraw from the service’s current arrangement which has been in operation […]
Further Cutbacks to NowDoc Service Putting Lives in Danger – Doherty
A change in the Standard Operating Procedure for NowDoc Services which states that the out of hours doctor will no longer respond to life threatening calls other than where requested to do so by the Ambulance Service will put lives in danger according to Sinn Féin TD for Donegal South West Pearse Doherty.