The South/South West Hospital Group is advising the public that there will be significant disruption and service delays in its hospitals today, Wednesday May 18th from 8am-8pm, due to the Industrial Action by the MLSA.
The industrial action has led to the cancellation of many in-patient and day-case elective procedures and hospital outpatient appointments. Routine GP testing services has been suspended for the day and while some limited services will continue wide scale disruption to patients’ services cannot be avoided.
For information on cancelled procedures and further clarity, please visit https://www2.hse.ie/services/health-service-disruptions/appointment-updates.html
The South/South West Hospital Group is requesting that members of the general public to only attend Emergency Departments if absolutely necessary and would like to remind people that they should explore all other options available to them prior to attending an Emergency Department.
Hospitals in the South/South West Hospital Group have been contacting patients directly to cancel appointments and are asking patients not to phone hospitals at this time.
Appointments and procedures disrupted by the strikes will be rescheduled as soon as possible.
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