Mid-west A&E units face closure threat

ACCIDENT and emergency units at three hospitals in the mid-west are being threatened with closure.

It is understood A&E departments at Ennis, Nenagh and St John’s voluntary hospital in Limerick will be replaced with nurse-led minor injuries units.

The hospitals are the three likely casualties in a national review of A&E departments being prepared by a team of consultants for the Health Service Executive (HSE).