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ENNIS has been excluded in the latest list of 16 primary health care centres, which are being progressed nationwide by the HSE, Health Minister James Reilly has confirmed. Ennis was included as one of the 35 potential locations for primary care centres to be developed by means of a public-private partnership when the Government announced details of its multi-million euro stimulus package in July 2012. However, Minster Reilly has admitted that the public private partnership approach to developing a primary health care centre in Ennis will now not proceed, as local GPs are not in favour of the process. While Ennis remains on the HSE’s schedule of primary care centres to be developed, it looks as if a successful completion of this project is years away. Minister Reilly stated that an operational lease is being considered as the best option and the preferred choice of local GPs. “The HSE continues to engage with potential developers who have expressed an interest …
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