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'Enormous anxiety' over Midoc, says Laois Offaly TD

The HSE says the HSE Midlands Louth Meath CHO will continue running the service previously provided by MIDOC GP CLG until an alternative provider is in place. The HSE issued the statement in response to comments from Laois Offaly TD Carol Nolan. She ...

04 Jan 2023 at 21:23

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Nearly €8 million spent on GP out-of-hours services in Midlands that's now in limbo

Fees paid to doctors accounted for more than €3 million out of almost €8 million in public money spent by the HSE in providing urgent out-of-hours GP care in Laois and other midlands counties in 2022. The spend on the service which is now in limbo, ...

17 Jan 2023 at 20:53

Christmas In Laois

Midoc GP opening hours in Laois and midlands over Christmas and New Year

The HSE is encouraging the public to consider all care options before attending hospital Emergency Departments (ED) to protect our EDs for those patients who need urgent and emergency care. It says one such option is the out of hours urgent GP ...

22 Dec 2022 at 21:22

Local News

Change to Midoc GP service in Midlands but no deal in Laois

The HSE and Laois GPs remain embroiled in a dispute over out-of-hours care which blew up last Christmas. While it's understood that doctors in Longford and Offaly have reached agreement to move into the Caredoc out-of-hours network, Laois GPs ...

28 Aug 2023 at 17:53

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'Ad hoc...not cheap...inconsistent' out-of-hours GP care in Laois and elsewhere Taoiseach admits to Laois TD

The out-of-hours GP service in Laois and other Midlands counties is part of an example of an expensive, inconsistent, and ad hoc system such care is delivered around Ireland, according to the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. That's the view he ...

26 Jan 2023 at 22:23

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GPs have HSE 'over a barrel' on out-of-hours care in Laois and Midlands claims TD

The threat to out-of-hours GP care in the Laois and other counties can be traced to being dependent on doctors and private companies whom he said can 'pull the plug' if they don't get enough income to deliver the service. Laois ...

07 Feb 2023 at 12:54

Local News

No Midoc solution as 100,000 calls for GP out-of-hours help in Laois and Midlands recorded

The number of people seen by doctors at the Midoc out-of-hours GP centres in Portlaoise and other towns doubled in 2022 as overall requests for help surged across the Midlands, according to newly published figures from the HSE....

05 Mar 2023 at 20:53

Local News

International accounting firm called in to examine the costs of Laois out-of-hours GP service

Price Waterhouse Coopers were hired by the HSE to assess the 'financial challenges' in running the troubled GP out-of-hours services in Laois and other Midlands counties ahead of the breakdown in the partnership arrangement ...

28 Feb 2023 at 19:23

Local News

Midoc operational but prognosis for out-of-hours GP service not clear

THE future of the GP out of hours service better known as Midoc remains in doubt following a statement from the HSE which says it just has an arrangement in place until January. In its first statement since confirming on ...

03 Jan 2023 at 13:53

Local News

Sticking plaster deal on Laois GP out-of-hours service but Midoc will cease trading

A short term deal is understood to have been struck that will see GPs from Laois and other Midland counties continue to provide out-of-hours services but the GP company that runs the service will cease to exist from ...

30 Dec 2022 at 21:04

Local News

Health Minister 'must knock heads together' to prevent 'unthinkable' lack of GP cover demands Laois TD

The Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly must directly intervene and find away to ensure more than 300,000 people living in the Midland counties have a 24/7 out of hours GP service beyond January 15. That is the ...

03 Jan 2023 at 19:23

Local News

Call on HSE to hire its own doctors to replace defunct Midoc out-of-hours service

Doctors should be employed directly by the HSE to provide an out-of-hours service to according to Brian Stanley TD who insists that an "interim solution only" has been reached due to the decision by midlands GP ...

31 Dec 2022 at 17:53

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