# department-of-health - Yesterday’s News
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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# department-of-health - Tuesday 25 September, 2018
Drug-testing is available in a number of other European countries.
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# department-of-health - Monday 3 September, 2018
The service applies to anyone who received carer’s allowance or carer’s benefit, but who do not hold a medical card.
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# department-of-health - Friday 24 August, 2018
“Another 2 minutes and we would have been dealing with a very different outcome,” the parents were told at the Cavan hospital.
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# department-of-health - Tuesday 21 August, 2018
Dr Graham Love only took up the role in March 2017.
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# department-of-health - Sunday 15 July, 2018
There will be shared responsibility between the two departments to ensure that homes are supported by the HSE.
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# department-of-health - Thursday 5 July, 2018
It could be months before the slides are tested.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 30 May, 2018
The Taoiseach has previously stated that none of the women affected by the Cervical Check scandal would have to go to court.
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# department-of-health - Tuesday 29 May, 2018
The Irish Dental Association has found that 90% of dentists say they are dissatisfied with the level of care they can provide under the scheme.
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# department-of-health - Thursday 17 May, 2018
“Open disclosure is not the ticking of a box or the filling of a form,” Ireland’s chief medical officer said.
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# department-of-health - Friday 11 May, 2018
Ireland’s newest doctors are fleeing the country – but the latest head of Ireland’s GP union, the NAGP, Maitiú Ó Tuathail is only 29.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 2 May, 2018
Many women across the country are wondering what action they should take in light of the recent controversy – here’s everything you need to know.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 14 February, 2018
Sinn Féin’s Lynn Boylan hit out at the voluntary nature of the Codes, saying Ireland needs “mandatory legislation”.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 31 January, 2018
Noreen O’Neill said her son has been seizure-free for more than a fortnight.
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# department-of-health - Tuesday 30 January, 2018
A summary of the Attorney General’s advice has been published.
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# department-of-health - Friday 12 January, 2018
The woman’s daughter, Siobhán Tobin, wrote an open letter to the Health Minister about trying to access out of hours services.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 3 January, 2018
The number of people on hospital trolleys was again at a record high today, according to the INMO.
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# department-of-health - Friday 29 December, 2017
This included 51 kidneys from living donors.
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# department-of-health - Thursday 28 December, 2017
Birth rates are down, but Ireland still has more babies than most.
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Some 12,000 Section 39 workers receive dual salary funding between the HSE and voluntary contributions.
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# department-of-health - Thursday 30 November, 2017
The Eighth Amendment Committee today discussed access to scans, counselling and other services.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 15 November, 2017
The health minister said he takes it “extraordinarily seriously” if anyone is experiencing pain as a result of a surgery in this country.
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# department-of-health - Tuesday 5 September, 2017
With HPV high on the agenda, we spoke to TDs who’ve raised the issue in the Dáil chamber.
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# department-of-health - Monday 4 September, 2017
Harris said he now feels McGrath “fully supports” the vaccination programme.
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# department-of-health - Sunday 3 September, 2017
US nurses who are being denied access to work here can’t find the adaptation courses they’re being told to take.
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# department-of-health - Saturday 26 August, 2017
HSE and Vertex employees were working long hours behind the scenes to secure the historic agreement.
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# department-of-health - Thursday 24 August, 2017
Dublin woman Carol Brady says the decision on whether or not to get a card is not one her son should have been expected to make.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 23 August, 2017
The huge lists may be just the tip of the iceberg – figures for those already undergoing treatment are not available according to the HSE.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 9 August, 2017
21 Alpha-1 patients in Ireland have been receiving Respreeza up until now through a compassionate use programme.
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# department-of-health - Friday 28 July, 2017
Labour’s Alan Kelly had led criticisms of the HSE for not making the drugs available.
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# department-of-health - Sunday 23 July, 2017
Misuse and overuse of antibiotics are leading to a dangerous resistance.
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# department-of-health - Monday 17 July, 2017
The new drug strategy aims to develop a health-led approach to drug and alcohol addiction.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 5 July, 2017
Emotional support and aftercare will be an important development in how people with, or who had cancer, are looked after.
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