'Good news' as updates come on the minor injuries unit in County Carlow among other projects

The HSE have provided updates on Capital Projects including that of the Minor Injuries Unit in County Carlow.

The chosen site for the Injury Unit is set to St Dympna's Hospital.

More updates on projects, that have been posted about by Carlow TD, Jennifer Murnane O'Connor include The Holy Angels Day Care, Kelvin Grove Development and Carlow Women's Refuge.

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The updates that are included in the Facebook post read as follows:

- A Development Control Plan is currently being prepared for St. Luke’s General Hospital Carlow/Kilkenny (SLGH CK). Hospital stakeholders are currently being engaged as part of the process.

- Enabling works for new Dolmen Wing at SLGH are being progressed.

- Plans are being progressed in relation to a new Local Injuries Unit in Carlow.

At the site of St. Columba’s Hospital, a new 95 en-suite bed Residential Care Centre is nearing completion in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. The new facility will provide long term and palliative care to older persons.

- The HSE’s Carlow/Kilkenny Integrated Care Programme (ICPOP) are moving from St. Luke’s General Hospital to a new premises in the community. Oriel House in Loughboy, Kilkenny will serve as an ICPOP Hub (hosting clinics etc.), a base for the HSE’s home support services in the Carlow/Kilkenny area and accommodate an administrative centre for Older Persons services in Carlow, Kilkenny and other parts of the Southeast.

- New facilities for services of the area’s Children’s Disability Network Team have been completed at the Thomastown Primary Care Centre in Co. Kilkenny.

- A developer is in place and a planning application about to be lodged to proceed with a new Primary Care Centre in Tullow, Co. Carlow. A similar project for Graiguenamagh in Co. Kilkenny (and serving parts of Co. Carlow) is at the same stage and a planning application is also being prepared for the development of a Primary Care Centre in Freshford, Co. Kilkenny.

- Planning approval has been secured for a new Enhanced Community Care development at Hebron to complement the Newpark Primary Care Centre in Kilkenny, with contractors expected on site shortly. Upgrade works at the HSE’s Community Care Services Centre, James’s Green, Kilkenny are due for completion in the next few weeks, as are the improvement works at health centres in Castlecomer and Clough in Co. Kilkenny.

The full post by the Carlow TD can be found on her Facebook page HERE or by following the post attached below this article.

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