Ambulance plans criticised as ‘unworkable and dangerous’

A GP representative body has described a key part of HSE plans to reconfigure the ambulance service in West Cork as “dangerous and unworkable”.

Dr Gerard O’Shaughnessy, a member of the West Cork Faculty of the Irish College of General Practitioners, said his colleagues believe the HSE’s proposals to cut the number of ambulances from four to three are “flawed and fraught with danger”.

“We’ve always considered that we had a basic ambulance service here,” he said.