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# Health Sector

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# Health
'Slow drive' Dublin protest as young GPs say 'they will not stay in the country' under current contract
The NAGP says 700 GPs are set to retire over the next five years.
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Feb 6th 2019, 2:25 PM
# simon says
Waiting lists are at an all-time high. Here's what the Health Minister says he'll do by the end of the year
Simon Harris also promised to fund home-help packages, the details of which will be announced in October’s budget.
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Aug 9th 2016, 10:24 AM
Voices
Damien Kiberd: 'Top-up' payments part of a game whose rules need to change
“The model of social partnership promoted since 1987 relies for its internal cohesion on permitting people at various levels within the system to milk that system for their own benefit.”
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Nov 24th 2013, 8:30 AM
# Recruitment
HSE struggles to recruit consultants and junior doctors
Two separate reports in the Medical Independent reveal difficulties filling health posts at either end of the spectrum.
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Mar 1st 2013, 6:30 AM
# Your Say
Poll: Do you have health insurance?
VHI is reported to be announcing another price increase today as the number of those with private healthcare falls. Do you have health insurance?
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Jan 30th 2013, 8:54 AM
# Euroleaks
Troika recommends cuts to specialist doctors' salaries
In a leaked document, the Troika suggests a number of radical measures to address the health service overspend including hiring specialists from abroad, cutting doctors’ pay and making savings on the cost of drugs.
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Jan 11th 2013, 11:25 AM
# Budget 2013
Taxes on texts and junk food proposed by Social Justice Ireland
Social Justice Ireland that a €3.5bn budget adjustment can be achieved without cutting social welfare or child benefit.
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Oct 1st 2012, 5:25 PM
# Health Sector
Doctors' union accuses HSE of trying to collapse talks
The Irish Medical Organisation says talks last night on new work practices in the Health Sector were less constructive than hoped.
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Jul 27th 2012, 2:58 PM
# Health
Video: Reilly tells nurses that closed hospital beds will not be reopened
James Reilly also told delegates at the INMO conference that nurses can do more of the work that doctors have done historically.
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May 12th 2012, 2:10 PM
# Health
Academic clinician numbers here are half the recommended level
Report in 2006 strongly recommended appointments to standardise Irish medical training – but only 49 of the recommended 99 existed five years later.
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Feb 10th 2012, 6:30 AM
# Health
Blood platelet service to be cancelled due to staff shortage
Blood Transfusion Service finding it difficult to retain staff for specialised job with anti-social hours.
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Feb 9th 2012, 7:00 PM
# Health Service
Sinn Féin says government has 'no plan at all' for health service exodus
The party says it has received figures detailing 3,800 departures from the health service under the early retirement scheme
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Feb 8th 2012, 8:21 AM