{
  "id": 351242,
  "title": "Is a shortage of GPs contributing to overcrowding at UHL?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/09/is-a-shortage-of-gps-contributing-to-overcrowding-at-uhl",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-09T06:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "RTE News",
    "slug": "rte-news",
    "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2026/0809/1587008-gps-uhl-hse-midwest/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "University Hospital Limerick found itself at the centre of the national conversation around hospital overcrowding once again, after recording the highest number of emergency department attendances in the country at the start of August.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}