A parent with a sick child was asked to wait in a janitor’s cupboard when they attended Shannondoc out-of-hours GP services over the Christmas period, the January meeting of Clare County Council was told.
SHANNONDOC dealt with the equivalent of one month’s average calls in just one day during an unprecedented demand for the out-of-hours GP service during Christmas.
Clare County Council is to write to the management of ShannonDoc, calling for an explanation behind issues faced by patients accessing its services. It follows reports of long waits over the Christmas period. Councillors are writing to ShannonDoc asking for a meeting to outline plans for out of hours GP services in the county into […]
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A West Clare health campaigner says people in the area feel ‘abandoned’ by the curtailment of the Shannondoc out-of-hours GP system. It comes as a Junior Health Minister says the Department of Health is engaged in ‘preparatory work’ for a full review of the service. A number of the services in this county were curtailed […]