NEWS that the construction of a new state-of-the-art health centre in Lisnaskea will begin within weeks has been greeted with cautious optimism, and the hope that the grand plan could solve the deepening GP crisis in Fermanagh. The proposed centre will be the biggest health project the county has seen since the South West Acute Hospital was built in 2012. […]
GP cover at all-time low in Fermanagh
DOCTOR shortages are continuing to devastate the Fermanagh community as local rural surgeries fight to survive. With the crisis spreading across the county, the latest to be hit is Brookeborough and Tempo surgery where the Herald learned there is regularly not enough GP cover. One reader told how she has not been able to see a […]
BREAKING: GP appointed for Fermanagh border practice
THE Swanlinbar community has said they’re ‘delighted’ after the appointment of a new GP. For the past three years the practice just across the border has been run on a full-time basis by a locum GP. On Friday afternoon, Swanlinbar Development Association confirmed that a new GP has been appointed to the Swanlinbar Health Centre […]