Trust say Trillick and Dromore GP services ‘stabilised’


THE Western Health Trust will likely continue to run the Dromore and Trillick GP service for the foreseeable future, it has confirmed. The Trust stepped in to take over the running of the practice last July after its resident GP resigned. The takeover was unprecedented, as the Trust does not normally have responsibility for the […]

Sinn Fein announce more Council candidates


WITH this year’s local government elections fast approaching, Sinn Fein will have two familiar faces on the ballot in Erne North. Sitting Cllr Debbie Coyle, who was co-opted on to the seat vacated by Cllr Siobhan Currie last year having previously been elected to the Council, and former councillor John Feely, who served from 2014 […]

Enrolment surges at school threatened with closure


A LOCAL school that is being threatened with closure saw its enrolment surge by more than 30 percent last year – higher than any other school of its kind in the North. Last week local church and political leaders hit out at the Council for the Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS) for refusing to withdraw its […]

Trust denies patients asked to make own way to Derry


DESPITE reports of local patients being asked to make their own way to Altnagelvin, the Western Trust has said it is not part of its normal contingency plans to ask patients to make their own arrangements. Since the suspension of emergency general surgery at the SWAH, local patients requiring non-planned surgical treatment have been transferred […]

Anger at removal of SWAH rheumatology


FERMANAGH patients have said they were “fuming” to find out rheumatology services had been removed from the SWAH without the Trust informing them. Around 400 local patients were on the books of the service – which deals with chronic inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis – at the Enniskillen hospital. The Western Trust has confirmed this service has been […]

Lifesaving neonatal unit saved at SWAH


THE neonatal unit at the SWAH is back up and running, following much hard work at the Western Trust, and the director who has driven this success said she feels it shows the Trust can “get it turned around with obs and gynae” too. In January last year the Herald revealed the life-saving had been slashed […]

Calls for Boho flooding solution


THERE are fears lives could be endangered if a long-term solution is not found to the Boho flooding saga, with residents regularly cut off from road access and having to wade through flooded fields. A multi-agency meeting was recently held in the area to discuss the ongoing problem, which has been ongoing for many years […]