Seven serious cases, all involving cancer, were missed or misdiagnosed by a staff member at University Hospital Kerry, a review of more than 46,000 files has found.

Almost 1,000 people have signed a petition to help a Ring of Kerry village secure a doctor. A continuing GP service in Sneem and its surrounding area is at risk, with the village doctor, Patrick Malone, due to retire after 34 years, writes Anne Lucey.

Almost 1,000 people have signed a petition to help a Ring of Kerry village secure a doctor. A continuing GP service in Sneem and its surrounding area is at risk, with the village doctor, Patrick Malone, due to retire after 34 years.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has described the record 612 patients on trolleys as “entirely predictable” and warned it could worsen.

Single-practice GPs are struggling to find locums, so it is difficult for them take summer holidays.

The number of children aged under six referred to emergency departments (ED) by their doctor has jumped dramatically, and as much as 55% at one large GP co-op, according to its medical director.

Nine Kerry towns and villages will soon be without a GP, and towns which have managed to restore doctor services are doing so under sharing arrangements.

More rural and deprived urban areas will be left without doctors in the coming years because Government cutbacks are making GP practices unviable, the Irish Medical Organisation has warned.

Three GP practices, which have been operating without planning permission in a Kerry medical centre, will have moved out by the end of next month.

GPs have warned a hospital management decision not to accept direct referrals for ultrasound scans could put patients at risk due to possible delayed diagnosis.

The future of a Kerry medical centre is uncertain as three GP practices have begun the process of relocating, following a ruling by An Bord Pleanála.

Desperate efforts are being made to save Kerry’s only existing primary care centre after the Killarney centre’s management company, Prime Healthcare, became insolvent earlier this year.

There were two thrilling semi-finals to the boys U18 singles at the Irish Junior Close championships at Rushbrooke, Cork yesterday.

Doctors at the Killarney Primary Care Centre yesterday said normal business has not been affected by a High Court decision to appoint an examiner to the Prime Healthcare Group that had been involved in setting up the centre.

PROWLING for sex with prostitutes ended in “remorse and significant embarrassment” for 21 men caught by female detectives in a Garda operation.

A GROUP of Killarney pharmacists has lodged yet another objection to a local GP-led healthcare centre.

A DOCTOR who worked in an out-of-hours GP service in the south has been found guilty of poor professional performance by a Medical Council fitness-to-practise inquiry.

A DOCTOR has been accused of failing to diagnose a heart attack in a man who came to him with chest pains when he was on duty at an out-of-hours GP service in the south.

DOCTORS have warned patients’ lives will be at risk because of a plan by the Health Service Executive to slash funding to an out of hours GP service in the north east.

SIXTY nurses who provide back-up to a GP out-of-hours service have been put on protective notice in a row over proposals to reduce posts and pay.

SOUTHDOC, the out of hours GP service, yesterday pledged there would no scaling down of its services to patients in Cork and Kerry, despite a €800,000 budget cutback.

IT’S interesting to note that for the Ireland v France rugby game in Croke Park on February 11, one package currently on offer includes a ticket to the game and a hotel room for one night for €399.

A county Clare school is going on strike for a day over the state of the school building.