# health-service - Tuesday 4 February, 2020
There were over 1,000 incidents reported last year where a member of staff had been assaulted.
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# health-service - Monday 3 February, 2020
The majority of healthcare staff attacked were nurses.
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# health-service - Sunday 26 January, 2020
The five-year tender for a dynamic purchasing system will ensure good quality medicines are available on a timely basis, the HSE said.
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# health-service - Wednesday 8 January, 2020
The INMO has said that “it’s not hard to join the dots” between delays in staffing and the current trolley crisis.
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# health-service - Monday 6 January, 2020
There were 92 patients waiting for a bed at University Hospital Limerick, alone.
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# health-service - Tuesday 17 December, 2019
In total, it has €17.4 billion – a 6.3% increase in funding compared to 2019.
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# health-service - Tuesday 10 December, 2019
Opposition members are understood to be considering tabling a motion of no confidence against the health minister in the new year.
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# health-service - Monday 2 December, 2019
The Irish Medical Organisation warned of the potential for an “escalating campaign of industrial action”.
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# health-service - Friday 4 October, 2019
Carers bear a huge burden but are not being looked after.
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# health-service - Tuesday 1 October, 2019
There were 10,641 patients on trolleys in Irish hospitals last month.
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# health-service - Thursday 18 July, 2019
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has warned that “patients are being put at extreme risk” over the ongoing freeze.
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# health-service - Thursday 11 July, 2019
As of 7am this morning, psychiatric nurses have not been carrying out work beyond their contracted hours.
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# health-service - Monday 1 July, 2019
Payouts have totalled €108 million for the first five months of 2019.
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# health-service - Wednesday 15 May, 2019
Harris said he believed the HSE was putting “sensible” controls in place.
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# health-service - Saturday 22 December, 2018
The figures were released to Fianna Fáil’s Stephen Donnelly who called them “appalling and unacceptable”.
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# health-service - Tuesday 18 December, 2018
Up to 35 nurses could be affected.
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# health-service - Wednesday 3 October, 2018
Sláintecare is the cross-party plan to overhaul the Irish health service over ten years.
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# health-service - Sunday 15 July, 2018
The Taoiseach said the government will be looking with ‘laser-like detail’ at how to get value for money in the health service.
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# health-service - Thursday 12 July, 2018
Laura Magahy has led some other major Irish projects over the years.
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# health-service - Thursday 14 June, 2018
More than half a million people are on outpatient waiting lists however the number of inpatients waiting has fallen slightly.
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# health-service - Wednesday 9 May, 2018
An autopsy revealed that the woman had suffered multiple organ failure.
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# health-service - Sunday 6 May, 2018
Will taxpayers cover the cost of abortion under the public system?
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# health-service - Friday 27 April, 2018
Health Minister Simon Harris said that a helpline would open from 9am tomorrow to answer women’s questions.
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# health-service - Saturday 7 April, 2018
Peadar Gilligan made his inaugural address as president of the Irish Medical Organisation at the group’s AGM in Killarney this evening.
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# health-service - Wednesday 7 February, 2018
Chief Executive Tony O’Brien said the HSE must stay neutral in referenda and elections.
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# health-service - Sunday 4 February, 2018
About 35% of those seeking outpatient treatment have been waiting over 12 months.
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# health-service - Friday 19 January, 2018
The HSE’s Service Plan for 2017 set a target that anyone aged 75 years and over entering an ED would be discharged or admitted within 24 hours.
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# health-service - Monday 8 January, 2018
A senior doctor has warned that the system cannot deal with the day-to-day workload.
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# health-service - Tuesday 2 January, 2018
Community Healthcare Organisations (CHOs) were the subject of 3,984 complaints.
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# health-service - Monday 11 December, 2017
The results of the first ever National Patient Experience Survey show that long waiting times continue to be a problem in Irish hospitals.
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# health-service - Thursday 12 October, 2017
Susie Long created a national debate around the health service when she told Liveline she was going to die “because of hospital waiting lists”.
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# health-service - Tuesday 5 September, 2017
Simon Harris said hospital staff are now trained to be more “sepsis aware”.
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# health-service - Thursday 29 June, 2017
The Liveline Effect: Brendan Howlin says families feel they have to go public with their tragic stories to see action.
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# health-service - Tuesday 30 May, 2017
The report on the Future of Healthcare is set to be published today.
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# health-service - Tuesday 7 February, 2017
There has been a steady, inexorable decline in Ireland’s health service over the past fifteen years, writes Dr Tom Clonan.
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It has emerged that there are an extra 80,000 people on hospital waiting lists outside the government’s official figures.
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# health-service - Wednesday 4 January, 2017
Siptu members said today that delays of between one and three hours have been observed across the country.
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# health-service - Thursday 29 December, 2016
The HSE is hosting three open recruitment days for nurses and midwives in Dublin over the Christmas period.
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# health-service - Wednesday 28 December, 2016
Siptu has announced a ballot of more than 25,000 support staff.
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# health-service - Saturday 26 November, 2016
The INMO General Secretary made a series of claims on Claire Byrne Live this week. Here’s our FactCheck roundup.
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