{"id":603548,"date":"2026-08-24T22:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603548\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T22:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:42:15","slug":"clare-health-campaigner-calls-for-greater-retention-of-graduates-following-extra-healthcare-university-places-allocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603548\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare Health Campaigner Calls For Greater Retention Of Graduates Following Extra Healthcare University Places Allocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Clare healthcare campaigner says more needs to be done to retain university graduates following a large increase in the number of available college healthcare places.<\/p>\n<p>612 additional places will be available each year going forward, with UL and University of Galway to benefit from an extra allocation.<\/p>\n<p>Once fully rolled out it\u2019s estimated 2,600 additional students will be enrolled in healthcare programmes, with 43% of places to be dedicated to nursing and midwifery.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of Ennis Hospital Chair, Angela Coll, says work needs to be done to incentivise graduates to remain working in the Irish healthcare service.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full interview here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Clare healthcare campaigner says more needs to be done to retain university graduates following a large increase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-603548","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\/603548","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=603548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}