{"id":410258,"date":"2026-04-21T16:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410258\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:08:20","slug":"still-no-opening-for-kerry-hospital-as-hse-fail-to-answer-queries-on-staffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410258\/","title":{"rendered":"Still no opening for Kerry hospital as HSE fail to answer queries on staffing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Killarney Community Nursing Unit is due to open within weeks according to the latest update.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3e1b9971-2be7-47f3-b1a6-f76c8b422a2f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Killarney Community Nursing Unit is due to open within weeks according to the latest update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The HSE has failed to answer queries concerning staffing of the long-awaited Killarney Community Nursing Unit, in particular whether extra staff required for the facility have been recruited. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The state-of-the-art facility was due to open in recent weeks but remains empty and HSE South West has been unable to provide any clarity on when it may open, despite reassurances for the past six months it would be open by the end of March. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Killarney Community Nursing Unit is due to open within weeks according to the latest update. The HSE has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60,4256],"class_list":["post-410258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sinead-kelleher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410258","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=410258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}