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Mayo hospital staff face 'extraordinary and overwhelming' conditions as Covid cases mount
The INMO said face mask mandates need to be reintroduced.
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The INMO said face mask mandates need to be reintroduced.
The health service has said those calling for non-urgent or non-life threatening emergencies “may experience delays”.
Workers have already staged work stoppages in January, February and March.
Three more strikes are due to take place next Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday.
The dispute centres on a row over trade union membership.
How the ‘weaponisation of healthcare’ is being used as a war tactic.
“These rules would not be tolerated in any other section of the workforce.”
One ambulance is still in service after travelling over 400,000km.
Siptu says a lack of ambulances means firefighters are overworked and under-resourced.
A spokeswoman said the outage demonstrates the need for a new children’s hospital.
TheJournal.ie’s FactCheck examines a bold claim made by Minister Denis Naughten.
Communications Minister Denis Naughten says ambulances are now reaching houses quicker.
The elaborate 14-month scheme involved bogus “patients” and fake paramedic costumes.
The health minister said that he has “no doubt” that many more such stories will come to light in the months to come.
Two ambulances were involved in separate crashes this morning.
Smaller crews had difficulty lifting stretchers in and out of the ambulances.
Members of Dublin City Council met with trade union representatives today.
The National Ambulance Service will be taking all Dublin calls from now on – but firefighters aren’t happy with the move.
Garda vehicles retire at 300,000 kilometres.
Epipens, discretionary medical cards and medicinal marijuana all came up in today’s Oireachtas Health Committee meeting. There was even a Beyoncé & Jay Z reference.
The issue centred on what the HSE is doing to mitigate the risks to patients who are waiting transfers in EDs to inpatient beds.
Everyone’s talking about mother and baby homes, a homeless shelter and the death of Rik Mayall.
NASRA made the comments after figures showed that ambulances spent 8,000 hours parked outside hospitals in April.
In total, just 37 per cent of the 16,333 attendances in April were clear within 20 minutes.
Crews from other locations are being deployed through the new ambulance stations at ‘black spots’ in Tuam, Mulranny and Loughglynn.
The party has tabled a motion on the ambulance service for debate in the Dáil tonight and tomorrow and reckons that the service needs 400 extra staff.
Sinn Féin’s Peadar Tóibín said the current system was unacceptable. Minister Howlin told the Dáil a HIQA review would lead to a ‘refined and improved’ service.
The issues were discussed at a Health Committee this morning.
The Health Minister was questioned on a range of health care topic in the Dáil today.
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Martin Dunne has stood by his words on a Prime Time investigation which detailed major shortcomings in the National Ambulance Service.
The paramedic was forced to kick his way out of the ambulance after a power failure.
The family of a man who died after a 25 minute wait for an ambulance were in the public gallery to hear contributions.
With HIQA set to audit the Ambulance Service, the trade union wants to ensure that resourcing is taken into account.
Defence Forces ambulances from the Curragh Camp in County Kildare have been called on 274 times so far this year.
In 65 per cent of cases, ambulances aren’t arriving at the scene within the 19 minute response time set-out by the health watchdog.