Yet again, healthcare provision - and the lack of it - in west Cork is headline news. “I’m not the only GP in west Cork having problems,” said Dr Kelly, who runs the town’s Bank Place Clinic with her part-time near-retirement colleague Dr Colin Gleeson. “What is happening in Castletownbere is a microcosm of what is happening in West Cork. It was a move the West Cork Faculty of the Irish College of General Practitioners slammed as “flawed and fraught with danger”. If the HSE proposals had succeeded, the ratio would have jumped to one ambulance for every 58,000 people for west Cork.

Source: Irish Examiner October 02, 2021 10:18 UTC