Weather severely curtails D Doc out of hours service

The D Doc service has effectively been suspended from this evening, Thursday, March 1st until at least tomorrow, Friday evening. Callers can avail of nurse triage where they can get urgent advise and special arrangements are in place to assist palliative care cases and emergency nursing home queries.

The decision was made to close the D Doc appointment service on the advice of the  HSE taking into account the Red weather alert in place for Dublin and the Statement by National Emergency Coordination Group

Northdoc, working closely with the HSE will keep the situation under urgent review and services will be resumed as soon as possible.