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# hse - Friday 15 March, 2013

Final Mobility Allowance installment payment due on 26 June

The HSE has written to all recipients of the allowance informing them of the final date of payment.

# hse - Thursday 14 March, 2013

Column: Autism – the ‘hidden condition’ – has been ignored for too long

Autism services have been historically underfunded, but with the new Autism Bill steps are finally being taken to acknowledge the rights of autistic citizens and those of their families, writes Michael McCarthy TD.

# hse - Wednesday 13 March, 2013

Newborn blood samples due for destruction ‘could save lives’

The Irish Heart Foundation is calling for people to ask for the cards, which contain genetic data from children born between 1984 and 2002, to be returned to them.

# hse - Tuesday 12 March, 2013

HSE care of depressed father to undergo ‘comprehensive review’

The Mental Health Commission has called for a review into the treatment that John Butler received in the months before he took the lives of his two daughters along with his own.

# hse - Saturday 9 March, 2013

Jamie’s joints dislocate every day but he has no access to treatment

The Rare Disease Taskforce has asked the HSE to clarify its position in relation to the Treatment Abroad Scheme that could help.

# hse - Thursday 7 March, 2013

Oireachtas agenda: Social media, water charges and HSE cutbacks

HSE head Tony O’Brien will return to the Oireachtas today to discuss the executive’s national service plan for 2013.

# hse - Tuesday 5 March, 2013

HSE insists patients’ food meets ‘nutritional needs and requirements’

The HSE responds to newspaper reports that chips, frozen pizzas and doughnuts are being offered to hospital patients.

# hse - Monday 4 March, 2013

Head of HSE drug-buying programme: ‘It’s difficult to defend current prices’

Michael Barry of the National Medicines Management Programme says draft laws will make generic drugs cheaper.

# hse - Friday 1 March, 2013

‘You can’t change facts’: Savita report with government next week

The chairman of Regional Health Forum West said around 30 people are mentioned in the final report.

HSE struggles to recruit consultants and junior doctors

Two separate reports in the Medical Independent reveal difficulties filling health posts at either end of the spectrum.

# hse - Wednesday 27 February, 2013

‘Every other option was illegal’ – Minister defends disability payments cut

Junior health minister Kathleen Lynch could provide no guarantees as to what will happen to the payments to those in receipt of the Mobility Allowance when it is axed in four months time.

Column: Ireland has the worst managed healthcare system in the developed world

While Ireland does not have the worst quality of healthcare, it is run by technically deficient, medically illiterate bureaucrats, says Professor John Crown. What healthcare model should we be looking to?

# hse - Tuesday 26 February, 2013

Shortall speaks out as 72,000 wait on primary care waiting lists

The former junior minister responsible for primary care says the recruitment budget is being gobbled up by overspending.

# hse - Monday 25 February, 2013

HSE U-turn on funding for epilepsy sufferer ‘insulting’

Gráinne O’Connor, 27, had originally been declined funding by the HSE, even though her required treatment is not available in Ireland.

# hse - Thursday 21 February, 2013

Cork crèche closes after toddler found with a ‘probable’ case of E. coli

The crèche is closed as a precaution to prevent the spread of the infection.

# hse - Tuesday 19 February, 2013

Column: Last year’s multi-million euro underspend in mental health is unacceptable

In a year when many families and communities lost a child or young person to suicide, it makes no sense that €29 million pledged to be spent on mental health was not used, writes Tanya Ward.

# hse - Monday 18 February, 2013

Reilly launches first ‘Early Warning Score’ for patient safety

The score is the first of the National Clinical Guidelines, and sets out how to recognise and respond to patients whose condition is deteriorating.

# hse - Sunday 17 February, 2013

HSE

James Reilly: The boycott of nursing jobs is “ill-judged”

The Minister for Health criticised graduate nurses for not taking up lower-paid jobs with the HSE.

# hse - Friday 15 February, 2013

National targets for ambulance response times to be abandoned

James Reilly is to come up with alternative ways of measuring the performance of the National Ambulance Service.

HSE chaplains earn twice as much as average priest

HSE records obtained by the Medical Independent show that HSE chaplains in Dublin North East out-earn everyday priests.

# hse - Thursday 14 February, 2013

The 5 at 5: Thursday

5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…

HSE rehired three staff the day after they retired

Data obtained by the Medical Independent shows 120 former employees were rehired by the HSE last year.

# hse - Wednesday 13 February, 2013

HSE ‘disappointed’ with leak of draft Savita investigation report

In a statement the HSE said the investigation’s terms of reference required it to observe appropriate confidentiality.

The 5 at 5: Wednesday

5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…

Savita’s husband should get first briefing on HSE report – Taoiseach

Enda Kenny was responding to the apparent leaking of a draft report into the controversial death of Savita Halappanavar last October.

Leaked Savita death report backs government’s decision to legislate – Rabbitte

The Evening Herald has obtained a draft HSE report into the death of the Indian woman at University Hospital Galway last October.

# hse - Wednesday 6 February, 2013

Figures show scale of non-compliance with food labelling and traceability

The figures were released over the past year and also indicate how many prosecutions took place.

# hse - Saturday 2 February, 2013

From The Daily Edge Not The News

Here is the week’s news… skewed

Breaking via The Mire wire: Irish phrases that could confuses visitors for The Gathering, Clare Daly’s ‘house’ measure, and disoriented man could be member of government…

# hse - Friday 1 February, 2013

Woman who gave birth after sterilisation awarded €100,000 in damages

Karen Hurley gave birth to a baby boy with a fatal illness following her failed steriliation procedure.

Kalydeco to be made available to Cystic Fibrosis patients in Ireland

The decision was announced today by Minister James Reilly after an agreement was reached with the HSE and the manufacturers of the drug.

HSE cancels deadline, opens nurse graduate scheme on a ‘rolling basis’

The deadline was originally today, by the HSE said that due to low number of applications it has extended it on a rolling basis.

Nurses to protest outside HSE headquarters

The unions also said their boycott of the nurse graduate scheme is “working”. They are asking the HSE to enter into discussions with them about finding savings.

# hse - Thursday 31 January, 2013

Oireachtas agenda: HSE board, translating laws and Greece’s bailout

TDs will continue debating legislation to abolish the board of the HSE in the Dáil this afternoon.

# hse - Wednesday 30 January, 2013

Oireachtas agenda: HSE changes, Garda cuts and fluoride in water

The funeral of Det Garda Adrian Donohoe means it’ll be a relatively quiet day in Leinster House.

# hse - Tuesday 29 January, 2013

Kenny slams Sinn Féin ‘witch hunt’ against Minister for Health

Sinn Féin has demanded an explanation as to why emergency wards in Kilkenny and Wexford had upgrades ‘fast-tracked’.

# hse - Wednesday 23 January, 2013

Nurses call on TDs to hear them on graduate scheme

The INMO and the Psychiatric Nurses Organisation said that some of their members had complained about recent comments from the Minister for health.

Column: Young nurses are right to boycott the new graduate scheme

Young nurses are right to boycott the new nursing graduate scheme, which would further cut pay for new graduates entering the Health Services, writes Patrick Nulty TD.

Visitor ban at Waterford hospitals due to vomiting bug

The bug has also hit Waterford Regional Hospital and St Patrick’s Hospital, leading to full bans on visitors.

# hse - Monday 21 January, 2013

Negotiations underway over new CF drug deemed ‘too expensive’

Irish health authorities will negotiate the price of a “groundbreaking” new treatment for cystic fibrosis, which would currently cost the State more than €28 million annually.

Report: 117 unauthorised absences from one HSE care home

One teenager absconded 72 times from the centre, according to a report by HIQA.