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<p>Patients who do not have a family doctor and are relying on out-of-hours GP services are at risk of their treatment not being safely monitored, doctors have warned. Picture: Lynne Cameron/PA</p>

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Patients relying on out-of-hours GP services at risk of treatment not being safely monitored

The National Association of GP Co-ops tells HSE that 10% of population does not have a family doctor

<p>Professor Colette Cowan, Chief Executive of the University of Limerick Hospitals Group said funding was given “with the objectives of reducing the number of referrals to emergency departments (EDs), and reducing the number of patients presenting directly to EDs without having first been seen by an out-of-hours GP service.' Picture: Liam Burke/Press 22 </p>

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UHL cancel non urgent procedures as ED overcrowding continues

<p>University Hospital Limerick had 86 people on trolleys on Wednesday despite months of efforts to reduce long waits.</p>

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UHL considers onsite GP to tackle waiting lists

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Shannondoc receives 12,500 inbound calls in just one day

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HSE to review visa scheme disrupting out-of-hours cover

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10 children report effects after drain-cleaning fluid found mixed with water in dental surgeries

Drop in patients at GP service

PATIENT numbers at a GP out-of-hours service in the mid-west fell last year for the first time since the scheme was established in 2001.

Tue, 25 Oct, 2011

Shannondoc out-of-hours GP service to be extended to Limerick city

THE Shannondoc 24-hour service is to be rolled out to Limerick city in September.

Fri, 06 May, 2011

Multi-disciplinary healthcare centre to open in Limerick

LIMERICK is to get a new multi-disciplinary health centre.

Wed, 15 Oct, 2008

HSE steps in over out of hours quarrel

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has moved to break the deadlock in a row with Mid-West GPs over funding for their out of hours co-op service.

Tue, 24 Jul, 2007

City GPs seek new arrangements for ‘red eye’ cover

LIMERICK city doctors are drawing up new proposals which they will bring to the Health Service Executive and the Shannondoc coop about out of hours cover in the city.

Tue, 28 Nov, 2006

Doctors urged to support Shannondoc

A RENEWED appeal went out to Limerick city GPs yesterday to reconsider their refusal to join the Shannondoc co-op which provides out-of-hours cover in Clare, North Tipperary and Co Limerick.

Fri, 17 Nov, 2006

GPs vote to halt HSE plans over payment disparity

THE 128 GPs who form the Shannondoc co-op serving 260,000 patients in Clare, Co Limerick and north Tipperary will ballot this week on a boycott of primary care teams (PCTs).

Tue, 17 Oct, 2006

Nurses demand extra resources before children’s unit opens

THE Irish Nurses Organisation has warned the Health Service Executive that a new children’s high dependency unit cannot go ahead at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital until all necessary resources are put in place.

Mon, 16 Oct, 2006

HSE refuses to support city doctors forming their own co-op

MOVES by Limerick city-based GPs to form a break-away doctors’ co-op to provide out-of-hours cover have been rejected by the Health Service Executive (HSE) Mid West.

Fri, 16 Dec, 2005

Doctors may form co-op splinter group

LIMERICK CITY GPs may split from other doctors in the mid-west to form their own co-op to provide out-of-hours cover, it emerged yesterday.

Wed, 14 Dec, 2005

Limerick GPs ‘not putting patients first’

JUNIOR Health Minister Tim O’Malley yesterday accused GPs in Limerick city of not putting their patients first.

Wed, 26 Oct, 2005

South Africans to cover GP shortages

Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

Fri, 04 Feb, 2005