{"id":574244,"date":"2026-07-29T19:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574244\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T19:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:10:39","slug":"clare-minister-of-state-expecting-countys-healthcare-needs-to-be-well-covered-following-board-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574244\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare Minister Of State Expecting County&#8217;s Healthcare Needs To Be &#8220;Well Covered&#8221; Following Board Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clare\u2019s Minister of State expects this county\u2019s healthcare needs to be \u201cwell covered\u201d thanks to the local representation on the Mid West Health Planning Board.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the 13 members of the board established to oversee the development of the new hospital in Raheen are from this county.<\/p>\n<p>Ennis native Dr Terry Hennessy will serve as Regional Clinical Lead for Strategy and Development while Lissycasey\u2019s Alma Kelly has been named Construction, Engineering and Renewables Specialist, and Lahinch-based campaigner John Wall is Patient and Service User Council Representative.<\/p>\n<p>The board is tasked with preparing a roadmap for \u201csafe, accessible and sustainable healthcare\u201d across the region, and Tulla Fianna F\u00e1il Minister of State Timmy Dooley believes Clare will see its services enhanced.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full interview here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clare\u2019s Minister of State expects this county\u2019s healthcare needs to be \u201cwell covered\u201d thanks to the local representation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-574244","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\/574244","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=574244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}