{"id":441957,"date":"2026-05-10T16:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/441957\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T16:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:20:26","slug":"future-for-ballindine-medical-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/441957\/","title":{"rendered":"Future for Ballindine Medical Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The future of the Ballindine Medical Centre has been confirmed, with the HSE saying the facility is not planned for closure and will remain open.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to Claremorris-Swinford Councillor Patsy O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor O\u2019Brien, who is based in Hollymount, wrote to the HSE for clarification on the matter saying it was \u201cin the public domain\u201d that the centre was marked for closure.<\/p>\n<p>The Ballindine Primary Care centre offers a number of services to locals including GP consultations. Councillor O\u2019Brien says while this is good news, the question still lingers about existing healthcare infrastructure in Mayo, particularly for those who live in rural areas of the County.<\/p>\n<p>He has been speaking with Midwest Radio\u2019s Rowan Kelly\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PATSY.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PATSY.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The future of the Ballindine Medical Centre has been confirmed, with the HSE saying the facility is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-441957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441957","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=441957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}