# healthcare - Tuesday 25 June, 2019
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
A strike by around 10,000 healthcare support workers is taking place tomorrow.
# healthcare - Wednesday 1 May, 2019
# In Limbo
# In Limbo
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.
# healthcare - Monday 29 April, 2019
# Pressure
# Pressure
There had been “serious issues of internal governance” at the National Association of General Practitioners, a statement said.
# healthcare - Thursday 25 April, 2019
# Opinion
# Opinion
We need to radically improve waiting times for treatment rather than focus on buying all the most expensive drugs, writes Dr Anthony O’Connor.
# healthcare - Sunday 21 April, 2019
# Rotunda Hospital
# Rotunda Hospital
The HSE has said that “service demand remains within the predicted limits” in relation to abortion services.
# healthcare - Thursday 18 April, 2019
# Challenging Times
# Challenging Times
The letter was signed off by five doctors and addressed to ‘the people of the Mid West’.
# healthcare - Sunday 14 April, 2019
# Inequality
# Inequality
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.
# healthcare - Saturday 6 April, 2019
# Reform
# Reform
The government is increasing funding for GPs in exchange for reforms and changes to the services they provide.
# Poll
# Poll
Free GP care is already in place for children under 6.
# healthcare - Wednesday 3 April, 2019
# BACKLOG
# BACKLOG
Micheál Martin said the decision was made by the government to “save their own skin and cover their own tracks”.
# healthcare - Tuesday 2 April, 2019
# Fingal County Council
# Fingal County Council
Varadkar said that Reid “developed a strong reputation as a dynamic and ambitious leader, who was always up for a challenge”.
# healthcare - Wednesday 27 March, 2019
# CervicalCheck
# CervicalCheck
Around half of the women who were offered the option of a retest have taken it up.
# healthcare - Monday 18 March, 2019
# Independent TD
# Independent TD
“The day of just two will do is no longer acceptable,” Dr Michael Harty, chair of the Oireachtas Health Committee, told TheJournal.ie.
# healthcare - Saturday 9 March, 2019
# Dignity
# Dignity
It comes as new stats show over 2,000 cases where a homeless person has been discharged from hospital in the past seven years.
# healthcare - Saturday 2 March, 2019
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
Canning says she’s both relieved and saddened to have settled the case.
# healthcare - Tuesday 26 February, 2019
# Critical
# Critical
In the run up to the 2016 Brexit vote, ‘Leave’ campaigners promised it would deliver millions for the NHS.
# healthcare - Tuesday 19 February, 2019
# Dr Michael Harty
# Dr Michael Harty
“He’s given impression that this is a priority for him,” the Independent Clare TD said.
# healthcare - Saturday 16 February, 2019
# Opinion
# Opinion
‘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.
# healthcare - Thursday 7 February, 2019
# Industrial Unrest
# Industrial Unrest
Three more strikes are due to take place next Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday.
# healthcare - Wednesday 6 February, 2019
# Attorney General
# Attorney General
Women in Northern Ireland can access abortion services here, but it will cost them €450, the Dáil was told yesterday.
# healthcare - Wednesday 30 January, 2019
# Industrial Action
# Industrial Action
The nurses have gone on strike over what they call a recruitment and retention issue in the healthcare sector.
# healthcare - Tuesday 29 January, 2019
# Children's Hospital
# Children's Hospital
Minister for Health Simon Harris appeared before the Health Committee this afternoon.
# healthcare - Thursday 10 January, 2019
# Industrial Action
# Industrial Action
They join members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation who are also due to go on strike.
# Abortion
# Abortion
Some hospitals are waiting for the system to be fully up and running before providing the service.
# healthcare - Wednesday 9 January, 2019
# CervicalCheck
# CervicalCheck
“During the Repeal the Eighth campaign you stated that you trusted women… but your behaviour during this debacle suggests otherwise,” one letter said.
# healthcare - Tuesday 8 January, 2019
# Strike
# Strike
Further strike days will follow in February if the dispute goes unresolved, the INMO says.
# INMO
# INMO
“The last thing the health service needs is a strike,” Health Minister Simon Harris said yesterday.
# healthcare - Friday 28 December, 2018
# Crisis Pregnancy
# Crisis Pregnancy
There were some concerns in recent weeks that hospitals would not be ready in time.
# healthcare - Thursday 27 December, 2018
# Ageing Population
# Ageing Population
A new report looks into several areas of both the health of the nation and health services in general.
# healthcare - Tuesday 4 December, 2018
# Pet Names
# Pet Names
Yesterday it was described as political correctness “gone mad”, but did the HSE even say it?
# healthcare - Monday 26 November, 2018
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
Patients have highlighted issues with communication from their doctors and the discharge process.
# healthcare - Thursday 22 November, 2018
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
The teenager’s family want her moved to a more appropriate residential care unit.
# healthcare - Saturday 17 November, 2018
# Prisoners
# Prisoners
The posters use archive photographs and historical information about Irish prisons.
# healthcare - Friday 2 November, 2018
# Medical Cards
# Medical Cards
Ireland’s two-tiered system contributes to the type of service patients receive, even from public providers, a new report has found.
# healthcare - Tuesday 4 September, 2018
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
The report said that there were issues around recruiting consultants with certain specialities in specific areas.
# healthcare - Saturday 1 September, 2018
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
There have been a number of “inordinate” delays in Monaghan, prompting councillors to ask for an explanation.
# healthcare - Monday 27 August, 2018
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
Sinn Féin councillor Toiréasa Ferris says she is worried the hospital could be ‘downgraded by stealth’
# healthcare - Friday 24 August, 2018
# Cavan
# Cavan
“Another 2 minutes and we would have been dealing with a very different outcome,” the parents were told at the Cavan hospital.
# healthcare - Sunday 12 August, 2018
# Patient Safety
# Patient Safety
There were an average of 160 patient safety incidents per day last year.
# healthcare - Thursday 26 July, 2018
# High Court
# High Court
A Dublin home would mean the mother wouldn’t have to travel to and from Kerry for her cancer treatment.
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