{"id":152608,"date":"2025-11-21T21:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152608\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:36:07","slug":"tanaiste-says-midwest-needs-new-hospital-and-hiqa-review-provides-roadmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152608\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00e1naiste Says Midwest Needs New Hospital And HIQA Review Provides &#8220;Roadmap&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The T\u00e1naiste says he believes the Midwest will \u201cultimately\u201d need a new hospital and claims the HIQA review provides a \u201croadmap\u201d on fixing the overcrowding crisis at University Hospital Limerick.<\/p>\n<p>Newly-appointed Finance Minister Simon Harris visited Kilkishen on Friday to officially turn on the village\u2019s Christmas lights.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill is due to make a decision on the recommendations contained in HIQA\u2019s review of urgent and emergency healthcare services in the region before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Clare FM, the T\u00e1naiste says steps must be taken to improve access to emergency care here before a new hospital is built.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear the full interview with T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris on Clare FM\u2019s Morning Focus on Monday from 9am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The T\u00e1naiste says he believes the Midwest will \u201cultimately\u201d need a new hospital and claims the HIQA review&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-152608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}