# hospitals - Yesterday’s News
Figures could rise again next month, due to the fallout from the nurses’ strike.
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# hospitals - Friday 8 February, 2019
Talks broke up this evening with no commitments for the nurses to call off the action.
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# hospitals - Thursday 7 February, 2019
Three more strikes are due to take place next Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday.
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# hospitals - Friday 1 February, 2019
Nurses and midwives held their first 24 hours of a full strike on Wednesday this week.
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# hospitals - Wednesday 30 January, 2019
The dispute centres on pay, conditions and staffing levels.
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# hospitals - Monday 14 January, 2019
Locals recently protested the proposed name change of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.
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# hospitals - Thursday 10 January, 2019
They join members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation who are also due to go on strike.
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# hospitals - Wednesday 2 January, 2019
How the ‘weaponisation of healthcare’ is being used as a war tactic.
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# hospitals - Monday 24 December, 2018
Varadkar felt the ire of frontline staff in November this month when he suggested that consultants should not take holidays in the first week of the year.
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# hospitals - Saturday 15 December, 2018
Figures from the HSE show how frequently nursing staff are assaulted.
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# hospitals - Monday 26 November, 2018
Patients have highlighted issues with communication from their doctors and the discharge process.
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# hospitals - Friday 16 November, 2018
The number of patients waiting more than 9 months for treatment has reduced by 38%.
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Our healthcare system in Ireland needs our nurses more than ever but measuring their performance has not been a priority, says former INMO General Secretary Liam Doran.
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# hospitals - Tuesday 6 November, 2018
The Taoiseach says hospitals effectively close down over the Christmas period and that needs to end.
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# hospitals - Tuesday 30 October, 2018
The IMO has said the situation won’t be due to a “flu crisis”, rather a “failure of policy”.
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# hospitals - Thursday 25 October, 2018
The company was involved in the construction of the extension to Beaumont Hospital.
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# hospitals - Friday 19 October, 2018
Fianna Fáil’s Stephen Donnelly said the situation is far worse than last year.
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# hospitals - Monday 1 October, 2018
The Irish Cancer Society recently called for the government to abolish inpatient charges for cancer patients in the forthcoming Budget.
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# hospitals - Friday 31 August, 2018
The HSE has said it regrets any delays experienced by patients.
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# hospitals - Wednesday 29 August, 2018
The HPRA said that it is aware of complaints made from an Irish hospital regarding the Tautmann UT10 patient trolley.
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# hospitals - Sunday 12 August, 2018
There were an average of 160 patient safety incidents per day last year.
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# hospitals - Friday 20 July, 2018
Members of the public have been advised that the two infected people attended a number of hospitals where it is possibly they passed on the illness.
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# hospitals - Wednesday 18 July, 2018
The Irish Medical Organisation has said that additional resources are needed immediately.
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# hospitals - Saturday 23 June, 2018
There was a 10% increase in health expenditure between 2011 and 2016.
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# hospitals - Monday 21 May, 2018
The special report on the hospitals sector was carried out in 20 Irish hospitals.
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# hospitals - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
New figures show a significant discrepancy in the weekly costs of providing long-term residential care for elderly people.
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# hospitals - Monday 5 March, 2018
During the course of Storm Emma, the HSE saw a 41% reduction in attendances at Emergency Departments.
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# hospitals - Wednesday 28 February, 2018
Three children’s hospitals are also cancelling planned admissions and outpatient appointments.
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# hospitals - Tuesday 6 February, 2018
A specialist trauma unit will also be located in a third location.
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# hospitals - Tuesday 30 January, 2018
Fifteen cyclists died in road traffic incidents last year.
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# hospitals - Wednesday 10 January, 2018
The Taoiseach said he was speaking as both a doctor and a grandson whose grandmother is “regularly in and out of hospital”.
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# hospitals - Monday 8 January, 2018
A senior doctor has warned that the system cannot deal with the day-to-day workload.
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# hospitals - Tuesday 2 January, 2018
A record high of 656 people were waiting on trolleys as 2018 began, according to the INMO.
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Elective surgeries have been postponed in some hospitals in a bid to prioritise emergencies.
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# hospitals - Friday 8 December, 2017
Bully and sexual harassment remain common in Ireland’s medical workplaces, according to the IMO.
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# hospitals - Thursday 9 November, 2017
The INMO said the overcrowding situation is having a “serious, detrimental and harmful effect” on patients.
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# hospitals - Thursday 19 October, 2017
There was some confusion over what employees should do in the event of national red weather warnings.
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# hospitals - Tuesday 17 October, 2017
Here’s what you need to know about power outages, public transport and fallen trees.
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# hospitals - Tuesday 3 October, 2017
The health authority spent nearly €3 million on debt recovery during the period 2011 to 2017.
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# hospitals - Tuesday 5 September, 2017
Simon Harris said hospital staff are now trained to be more “sepsis aware”.
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