Home help care supports: How many people are waiting in your county?
A total of 6,819 people are waiting for funding for home help hours, but the HSE continues to deny any cuts to the service.
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A total of 6,819 people are waiting for funding for home help hours, but the HSE continues to deny any cuts to the service.
Harris described today’s announcement as the biggest restructuring of the HSE in 15 years .
The issue centres on a dispute over pay increases.
A strike by around 10,000 healthcare support workers is taking place tomorrow.
One healthcare worker said that she may have “nowhere to live” by the end of the month because she can’t yet take up her new job.
There had been “serious issues of internal governance” at the National Association of General Practitioners, a statement said.
We need to radically improve waiting times for treatment rather than focus on buying all the most expensive drugs, writes Dr Anthony O’Connor.
The HSE has said that “service demand remains within the predicted limits” in relation to abortion services.
The letter was signed off by five doctors and addressed to ‘the people of the Mid West’.
The Irish Cancer Society said that lifesaving medicines should be available to everyone who could benefit from them, not just people with private health insurance.
The government is increasing funding for GPs in exchange for reforms and changes to the services they provide.
Free GP care is already in place for children under 6.
Micheál Martin said the decision was made by the government to “save their own skin and cover their own tracks”.
Varadkar said that Reid “developed a strong reputation as a dynamic and ambitious leader, who was always up for a challenge”.
Around half of the women who were offered the option of a retest have taken it up.
“The day of just two will do is no longer acceptable,” Dr Michael Harty, chair of the Oireachtas Health Committee, told TheJournal.ie.
It comes as new stats show over 2,000 cases where a homeless person has been discharged from hospital in the past seven years.
Canning says she’s both relieved and saddened to have settled the case.
In the run up to the 2016 Brexit vote, ‘Leave’ campaigners promised it would deliver millions for the NHS.
“He’s given impression that this is a priority for him,” the Independent Clare TD said.
‘As we cry in frustration over the recurring ineptitude of the state to deliver decent public healthcare service for citizens’ Maebh Ní Fhallúin examines how we got here.
Three more strikes are due to take place next Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday.
Women in Northern Ireland can access abortion services here, but it will cost them €450, the Dáil was told yesterday.
The nurses have gone on strike over what they call a recruitment and retention issue in the healthcare sector.
Minister for Health Simon Harris appeared before the Health Committee this afternoon.
They join members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation who are also due to go on strike.
Some hospitals are waiting for the system to be fully up and running before providing the service.
“During the Repeal the Eighth campaign you stated that you trusted women… but your behaviour during this debacle suggests otherwise,” one letter said.
Further strike days will follow in February if the dispute goes unresolved, the INMO says.
“The last thing the health service needs is a strike,” Health Minister Simon Harris said yesterday.
There were some concerns in recent weeks that hospitals would not be ready in time.
A new report looks into several areas of both the health of the nation and health services in general.
Yesterday it was described as political correctness “gone mad”, but did the HSE even say it?
Patients have highlighted issues with communication from their doctors and the discharge process.
The teenager’s family want her moved to a more appropriate residential care unit.
The posters use archive photographs and historical information about Irish prisons.
Ireland’s two-tiered system contributes to the type of service patients receive, even from public providers, a new report has found.
The report said that there were issues around recruiting consultants with certain specialities in specific areas.
There have been a number of “inordinate” delays in Monaghan, prompting councillors to ask for an explanation.
Sinn Féin councillor Toiréasa Ferris says she is worried the hospital could be ‘downgraded by stealth’