North West GP warns overcrowding crisis in health service is preventing people from going to Hospital
A North West based GP has attributed the current overcrowding crisis in the Irish health service to the lack of community and hospital beds. Dr Denis McCauley is the Chairperson of the GP Sub Committee of the Irish Medical Organisation. Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation figures show 639…
Donegal GP believes focus should be on Covid booster campaign
A leading GP believes we should focus on our booster campaign rather than mask wearing. It comes amid calls from the INMO to reintroduce mandatory facemask rules in certain settings. Donegal Dr Denis McCauley is the Chair of the Irish Medical Organisation’s GP Committee. He believes our…
Time has come to cut back on testing centres – McCauley
A County Donegal GP doesn’t think it’s too soon for the HSE to scale back its covid contact-tracing operations. The health authority’s planning to reduce them at the end of the month, with staff at centres in Limerick and Galway to be redeployed to other government departments. Staff…
General Practitioners to roll out large quantities of vaccinations
A Donegal GP has welcomed changes to delivery of the Vaccine Booster Programme and says GP’s along could administer 150,000 doses per week. The Tánaiste is predicting 2 million will receive boosters by the end of the year, due to the accelerated programme. GPs will double the amount…
Donegal GP warns that Delta strain needs to addressed before we worry about Omicron
A Donegal GP is warning that although people are right to be concerned over the ‘Omicron variant’ of Covid-19, more focus should be placed on looking to suppress the number of cases that are currently being registered all over the country. The National Public Health Emergency Team will meet…
Buncranna test centre has the highest Covid-19 positivity rate nationally
The Covid-19 test centre in Buncranna has the highest postivity rate for both walk in and referral tests in the country. 28.4% of walk tests taken at the centre in the Donegal town came back positive as of Tuesday while 23.6% of referrals were positive. Figures from the HSE show…
Donegal GP says blood clot numbers post vaccination are to be expected
There have been 41 reports of Irish patients getting blood-clots after an AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. Less than five that suffered from blood clots were associated with low platelets, according to the medicines watchdog. All those effected were under the age 40 and got the condition after their first…