The Health Minister has given a commitment that overnight accident and emergency care will not be withdrawn from the MidWest next month.
It had been feared that such services were going to be cut from July 11th, the date when doctors are rotated between posts as part of their training.
In a meeting with local TDs last evening, Dr James Reilly gave a commitment that services will be preserved, and that nothing will be done to compromise the integrity of the service
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Measures are to be put in place to fast-track the recruitment of non-consultant doctors, to prevent the situation which was set to see Clare patients travel to Galway for overnight A&E care.
