Expansion of services available in Carrick on Suir Primary Care Centre

Two GP practices are fully operational at the HSE’s Primary Care Centre in Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary.

During the summer of last year, the Carraig Clinic/Roche-Nagle Practice relocated from premises elsewhere in the town to the purpose built facility on the St. Brigid’s Campus, Pill Rd., Carrick on Suir. The Carraig Clinic will also continue to provide its GP surgery facilities at the HSE Health Centre in Clonea Power, Co. Waterford on Mondays and Fridays.

In February of this year, following its transfer from a temporary location locally, the Carrick on Suir Family Practice also began seeing patients at its suite in the Carrick on Suir Primary Care Centre.

Opened in 2018, the construction of the Carrick on Suir Primary Care Centre was funded as a Public Private Partnership. The Centre in Carrick on Suir was designed as a state of the art facility, where people in the town and surrounding localities could access a full range of health services in one location.

In the meantime, the following services have been available in and from the building: Public Health Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Dietetics Outreach, Registration for Births, Deaths and Marriages, Area Medical Officer, Dental, Diabetic retina screening, Maternity clinics, Post Mastectomy supports, Mental Health services, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Psychology services, Social Workers, HSE National Counselling Services, Child school screening clinics, Older Persons Services incorporating Home Support, Substance Misuse services, European Health Insurance Card and healthcare aid grant processing and Health Promotion.

South Tipperary Chronic Disease Community Specialist Services are based in the adjacent St Brigid’s Hospital building on campus. They provide services for people living with Type 2 Diabetes, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Asthma and heart conditions throughout South Tipperary, including Consultant led Respiratory and Cardiology clinics in the Carrick on Suir Primary Care Centre. Health and Wellbeing supports and Community Healthcare Network management are also based in St Brigid’s.

In addition to working with Primary Care Teams locally, the HSE also continues to provide services such as those of Health Care Assistants in Carrick on Suir and its surrounding villages and parishes in Counties Tipperary, Kilkenny and Waterford.

Welcoming the expansion of services available in Carrick on Suir Primary Care Centre in 2025, Paul Goff (Head of Service/Primary Care, Carlow-Kilkenny/Tipperary South and Waterford/Wexford Integrated Healthcare Areas, HSE Dublin and South East) said:

“The HSE has a close working relationship with General Practitioners and Caredoc (the out of office hours GP co-operative) serving the South Tipperary area and adjoining communities in counties Kilkenny and Waterford. We are delighted, following some accommodation works carried out in the meantime, that the Carraig Clinic/Roche Nagle Practice and the Carrick on Suir Family Practice are co-located with our HSE services on the St. Brigid’s Campus in Carrick on Suir.”

“In June 2024, we welcomed Dr. Richard Roche-Nagle, his GP colleagues and their practice team into the Primary Care Centre.”

“We were also delighted, more recently, to welcome the whole team from the Carrick on Suir Family Practice to the Centre" 

“These developments over the last year are a very significant complement to the HSE’s Primary Care, Mental Health, Older Persons, Disabilities and Health and Wellbeing services and supports being offered in and from the Carrick on Suir Primary Care Centre.”