HSE plans to remove key surgical procedures from Ennis General will get underway tomorrow morning.The changes will see the end of acute surgery at Clare's County Hospital (left) at the weekends from July until October and at that stage all such operations will be centralised to Limerick Regional. Clare FM news reports that in a memo circulated to GPs across Clare Limerick and Tipperary, the HSE has outlined the next stage in its plans to centralises services in the Mid West, which has already seen the removal of 24-hour A&E cover at Ennis General.
From tomorrow, cute surgery at Clare's County Hospital will be phased out with the procedures only being carried out between 8am on Mondays and 8am on Fridays. Weekend acute surgery patients from the county will go straight to Limerick.
It will be a similar situation at Nenagh but all such procedures will cease entirely at Saint John’s from tomorrow July 1st.
