'It's about creating a system that's kind': HSE piloting scheme for homeless patients in hospitals
It comes as new stats show over 2,000 cases where a homeless person has been discharged from hospital in the past seven years.
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It comes as new stats show over 2,000 cases where a homeless person has been discharged from hospital in the past seven years.
His parents say that his dignity and safety are compromised daily.
A new report published today says there is “confusion and lack of understanding” around the whole system.
The Korean women were forced into military-run brothels.
His family are calling for a hospital ombudsman be set up.
Jimmy Devaney is set to be sentenced in two week’s time.
The 25-year-old mother was making her way to Europe from Cameroon.
The number of complaints against qualified doctors is down in general however.
Making an advanced healthcare directive is good sense – serious illness, brain injury, accident or stroke could render any one of us incapacitated.
There are over 3,500 people living on the streets in San Francisco.
We must rail against the insidious notion that moral norms are not rights at all but, rather, privileges bestowed upon us by our kindly masters, writes Dr Tom Hickey.
The Hollywood star was speaking at the launch of the Irish Hospice Foundation’s Design and Dignity Fund in the USA.
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The mobility grant gave me and my husband the chance to lead independent lives, with dignity, writes Miriam Murphy, who says this government are chipping away at the help for people with disabilities.
Almost 300 girls who were called Nakusa (or Unwanted) at birth have changed their names in India.