Máire Hoctor (Tipperary North, Fianna Fail)

The HSE has informed the Department that the role of Monaghan General Hospital will be to provide a range of diagnostic, outpatient day cases and some inpatient treatment services within clinical networks. Significant developments have taken place regarding the provision of surgical services across the Cavan-Monaghan hospital interface. Emergency surgical services on a 24-hour, seven-day basis are provided on the Cavan site while significant elements of diagnostic, outpatient and day case services are provided on the Monaghan site. This has resulted in lower waiting times for outpatient appointments and inpatient elective services. Since the reconfiguration of Cavan-Monaghan surgical services, patients can be seen by the visiting consultant surgeon on the day of referral by the general practitioner.

Monaghan General Hospital has an important role to play in the provision of health services in the north east. This view was confirmed in the Teamwork report and also in the north-east transformation programme.

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