Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----that due to consultant staff shortages, a number of rheumatology outpatient clinics in Galway University Hospital are being postponed during the months of July and August this year. New appointments will be scheduled as soon as possible and urgent patients will continue to be seen. Clinics in Manorhamilton will continue as normal. The hospital has issued a statement, as one would expect, saying that it regrets the undoubted inconvenience this situation causes to patients and their families.

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