75% of GP practices ‘to close within five years’


FERMANAGH could be left with only five GP practices serving the whole county by 2021, doctors have warned this week. The stark message from the General Practitioners Committee means 13 of the 18 GP practices in Fermanagh could close, leaving patients having to travel up to 40 miles to see a doctor. With no GPs […]


Trust talks tough as staff assaults increase at SWAH


The Fermanagh Herald has learned that there were 40 assaults against SWAH staff from 1st January to 31st December 2015. The number of incidents recorded from 1st January up until 12th September this year stood at 28.  Health service workers in the wider Western Trust Area were physically or verbally abused over 692 times last […]