{"id":641663,"date":"2026-10-01T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/641663\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:00:16","slug":"mullingar-hospital-diabetes-service-suspended-over-staffing-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/641663\/","title":{"rendered":"Mullingar hospital diabetes service suspended over staffing issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The diabetes day service at Mullingar hospital has been temporarily suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Local Fine Gael TD, Miche\u00e1l Carrigy, says it&#8217;s due to staffing shortages, with vacant nursing and dietician jobs.<\/p>\n<p>He says recruitment is under way to fill them.<\/p>\n<p>During the suspension, existing patients will be managed through consultant diabetes outpatient clinics &#8211; but no new referrals can be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Carrigy is calling for the diabetes day service to be restored as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The diabetes day service at Mullingar hospital has been temporarily suspended. Local Fine Gael TD, Miche\u00e1l Carrigy, says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,57],"class_list":["post-641663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mullingar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641663","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=641663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}