Southdoc closures in Blackpool and Listowel labelled 'disgraceful'

Sinn Féin TD Thomas Gould received correspondences in which Southdoc informed the HSE that it did not plan to reopen the Blackpool centre in Cork city or the Listowel centre in Kerry

SouthDoc transport at their base at the Kinsale Road Roundabout. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

“Disgraceful” documents reveal that the HSE has repeatedly and unsuccessfully asked private operator Southdoc to reopen its shuttered out-of-hours GP services in Cork and Kerry since September.

Sinn Féin TD Thomas Gould received correspondences through a Freedom of Information request in which Southdoc informed the HSE that it did not plan to reopen the Blackpool centre in Cork city or the Listowel centre in Kerry.