# department-of-health - Friday 26 July, 2019
The OPW said the piece has been moved into an individual office now after “an objection” to the artwork.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 24 July, 2019
An outbreak of infection earlier this year saw eight babies affected – with the death of one infant referred to the coroner.
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# department-of-health - Tuesday 23 July, 2019
Meanwhile, Health Minister Simon Harris has launched a public consultation on the impact of climate change on the health sector.
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# department-of-health - Tuesday 16 July, 2019
Meanwhile, the HSE says that 52 of the women who were re-tested were found to have HPV.
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The Health Department said it will be asking the HSE to fully implement abortion services in all maternity hospitals and units by September.
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# department-of-health - Friday 12 July, 2019
The HSE has made contact with the women to give them their results directly.
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# department-of-health - Thursday 11 July, 2019
“It is unfortunate that the CervicalCheck programme has been hit with another body blow,” Sinn Féin TD Louise O’Reilly said.
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“We shouldn’t have to change the law to have a basic understanding of decency,” Harris said.
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# department-of-health - Tuesday 9 July, 2019
A working group on the matter was established by government earlier this year.
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# department-of-health - Monday 8 July, 2019
Benzodiazepine medicine use in women over 65 years is 40% higher than in men, finds a new report.
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The report notes that the mortality rate for heart attack and stroke has continued to decrease year-on-year for the past 10 years.
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# department-of-health - Sunday 7 July, 2019
Cheaper drinks with a high alcohol content will see the biggest price change.
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# department-of-health - Thursday 4 July, 2019
Last month the HSE confirmed that funding of €5.7 million has been approved for the development.
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# department-of-health - Monday 24 June, 2019
Doctors at St Luke’s wrote in a letter that they’d decided the hospital “is not an appropriate location for medical or surgical terminations”.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 19 June, 2019
And what impact will it have?
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# department-of-health - Friday 14 June, 2019
# department-of-health - Thursday 28 March, 2019
Women who had had a free smear test were offered a repeat between May and December 2018.
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# department-of-health - Tuesday 12 March, 2019
Minister for Health Simon Harris has published a new plan aimed at reducing waiting times for patients.
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# department-of-health - Monday 11 March, 2019
The scheme is designed to provide an alternative, “non-adversarial” option for women affected by the CervicalCheck issue.
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# department-of-health - Monday 4 March, 2019
The white powder in the envelope addressed to the Health Minister was confirmed to be non-hazardous.
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Technicians from the Defence Forces have confirmed that the powder was non-hazardous
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The group will examine the extent to which cost is a barrier to accessing reliable methods of contraception in Ireland.
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# department-of-health - Sunday 17 February, 2019
People with outside expertise will sit on the new group, with a chairperson to be appointed shortly.
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# department-of-health - Thursday 7 February, 2019
Pressure has been mounting on government all week about who knew what when about the hospital costs.
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# department-of-health - Friday 25 January, 2019
This would be the second time in the INMO’s hundred-year history that nurses or midwives go on strike.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 23 January, 2019
The Department of Health said it may review its policy given its difficulty in sourcing cannabis product.
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# department-of-health - Tuesday 22 January, 2019
The board will be appointed on an administrative basis until legislation has passed.
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# department-of-health - Saturday 12 January, 2019
The 24-hour strike on 30 January was announced earlier this week.
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# department-of-health - Thursday 10 January, 2019
Six months later, the HSE announced that GPs had been told the offer of free repeat smear tests were to end on 31 December.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 9 January, 2019
“During the Repeal the Eighth campaign you stated that you trusted women… but your behaviour during this debacle suggests otherwise,” one letter said.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 2 January, 2019
Stephen Teap said he went public with his story this year so he can tell his boys when they grow up that he did everything he could.
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# department-of-health - Thursday 27 December, 2018
A new report looks into several areas of both the health of the nation and health services in general.
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# department-of-health - Monday 10 December, 2018
Varadkar said he is confident services will be available, but perhaps not in every hospital or clinic.
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# department-of-health - Monday 26 November, 2018
Patients have highlighted issues with communication from their doctors and the discharge process.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 14 November, 2018
Just 10 of 36 recommendations in a 2015 report have been fully implemented.
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# department-of-health - Saturday 3 November, 2018
Department of Health officials are working to get medical cannabis products from other EU Member States and further afield.
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# department-of-health - Thursday 1 November, 2018
Consultants for US firm Mercy Virtual said meetings with health officials were cancelled at short notice.
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# department-of-health - Saturday 27 October, 2018
According to the HSE, folic acid is important because it can help the nervous system develop in the unborn.
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# department-of-health - Friday 12 October, 2018
The NTPF’s figures also found that there had been a decrease of 1,471 patients waiting for an appointment for elective surgery
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# department-of-health - Thursday 11 October, 2018
The Comptroller and Auditor General recently revealed that the wrong rate of rent had been paid on the vacant building.
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