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# health-service - Friday 19 June, 2020
HSE was 'gifted' €544,000 in free advertising by Google and Facebook during Covid-19 pandemic
New figures show the health service spent more than €1 million on advertising in the first two months of the crisis.
# health-service - Sunday 17 May, 2020
'People say I'm in a privileged position. I don't consider cancer a privilege'
The government created a single-tier health service at the beginning of the crisis, but criticism of the contracts is ramping up.
# health-service - Friday 20 March, 2020
'We need to treat each other like pariahs': Limerick intensive care doctor issues stark warning
Dr Catherine Motherway of University Hospital Limerick said the Irish health system may struggle if Covid-19 is not contained.
# health-service - Tuesday 4 February, 2020
Poll: Should there be minimum sentences for anyone convicted of assaulting hospital staff?
There were over 1,000 incidents reported last year where a member of staff had been assaulted.
# health-service - Monday 3 February, 2020
Staff in Irish hospitals assaulted over 1,000 times last year - but union warns it's 'tip of iceberg'
The majority of healthcare staff attacked were nurses.
# health-service - Sunday 26 January, 2020
'Affordable and transparent': HSE's new system for purchasing medicines to cost €1.3 billion
The five-year tender for a dynamic purchasing system will ensure good quality medicines are available on a timely basis, the HSE said.
# health-service - Wednesday 8 January, 2020
HSE trolley crisis: Recruitment freeze is 'starving frontline services of much-needed staff'
The INMO has said that “it’s not hard to join the dots” between delays in staffing and the current trolley crisis.
# health-service - Monday 6 January, 2020
It's the worst ever day for trolley overcrowding in Irish hospitals since records began, INMO says
There were 92 patients waiting for a bed at University Hospital Limerick, alone.
# health-service - Tuesday 17 December, 2019
The HSE has €1.4 billion more to spend on healthcare in 2020
In total, it has €17.4 billion – a 6.3% increase in funding compared to 2019.
# health-service - Tuesday 10 December, 2019
Simon Harris 'not worried' amid speculation he could be next to face no confidence vote
Opposition members are understood to be considering tabling a motion of no confidence against the health minister in the new year.
# health-service - Monday 2 December, 2019
'We are at breaking point': Hospital doctors to be balloted for industrial action
The Irish Medical Organisation warned of the potential for an “escalating campaign of industrial action”.
# health-service - Friday 4 October, 2019
Opinion: The health service will collapse if the exploitation of Ireland's carers isn't addressed
Carers bear a huge burden but are not being looked after.
# health-service - Tuesday 1 October, 2019
'They deserve better': Taoiseach apologises to patients waiting on hospital trolleys as numbers rise
There were 10,641 patients on trolleys in Irish hospitals last month.
# health-service - Thursday 18 July, 2019
HSE sought out experienced physios for vacant position ... then pulled job due to recruitment freeze
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has warned that “patients are being put at extreme risk” over the ongoing freeze.
# health-service - Thursday 11 July, 2019
Psychiatric nurses begin overtime ban as Dáil hears they've been propping up services by working extra hours
As of 7am this morning, psychiatric nurses have not been carrying out work beyond their contracted hours.
# health-service - Monday 1 July, 2019
Almost a billion Euro paid out in medical negligence cases since 2014, new figures show
Payouts have totalled €108 million for the first five months of 2019.
# health-service - Wednesday 15 May, 2019
'Wholly unsatisfactory': Harris pressed in Dáil over recruitment freeze in the HSE
Harris said he believed the HSE was putting “sensible” controls in place.
# health-service - Saturday 22 December, 2018
'Wasteful, inefficient, horrendous': 30,000 people waited longer than 24 hours on hospital trolleys this year
The figures were released to Fianna Fáil’s Stephen Donnelly who called them “appalling and unacceptable”.
# health-service - Tuesday 18 December, 2018
Nurses in Dublin hospital may be told not to turn up over busy New Year period due to visa issues
Up to 35 nurses could be affected.
# health-service - Wednesday 3 October, 2018
TV presenter Brendan Courtney appointed to Sláintecare implementation council
Sláintecare is the cross-party plan to overhaul the Irish health service over ten years.
# health-service - Sunday 15 July, 2018
Leo wanted the HSE to save money by re-using crutches, but was told it was a non-runner
The Taoiseach said the government will be looking with ‘laser-like detail’ at how to get value for money in the health service.
# health-service - Thursday 12 July, 2018
Woman who led Temple Bar's 1990s revival chosen to lead Irish healthcare's transformation
Laura Magahy has led some other major Irish projects over the years.
# health-service - Thursday 14 June, 2018
There are more people on hospital waiting lists than ever before
More than half a million people are on outpatient waiting lists however the number of inpatients waiting has fallen slightly.
# health-service - Wednesday 9 May, 2018
Woman who called emergency services in France mocked by operator and died hours afterwards
An autopsy revealed that the woman had suffered multiple organ failure.
# health-service - Sunday 6 May, 2018
Q&A: Who will pay for abortions if the Eighth Amendment is repealed?
Will taxpayers cover the cost of abortion under the public system?
# health-service - Friday 27 April, 2018
CervicalCheck: Senior team sent in to ensure women told about smear reviews
Health Minister Simon Harris said that a helpline would open from 9am tomorrow to answer women’s questions.
# health-service - Saturday 7 April, 2018
Patients at A&E should be either admitted or discharged within six hours, not 14 - IMO chief
Peadar Gilligan made his inaugural address as president of the Irish Medical Organisation at the group’s AGM in Killarney this evening.
# health-service - Wednesday 7 February, 2018
'Psychiatrist should not have used HSE headed paper to contact TDs about retaining the Eighth Amendment'
Chief Executive Tony O’Brien said the HSE must stay neutral in referenda and elections.
# health-service - Sunday 4 February, 2018
If you're waiting for an eye procedure there's a good chance you'll be waiting over a year
About 35% of those seeking outpatient treatment have been waiting over 12 months.
# health-service - Friday 19 January, 2018
The government vowed to stop it, but 10,000 elderly people had to wait in A&E for more than a day
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.
# health-service - Monday 8 January, 2018
'Inconceivable' that health system would be able to deal with mass casualty event
A senior doctor has warned that the system cannot deal with the day-to-day workload.
# health-service - Tuesday 2 January, 2018
Over 23,000 formal complaints were made to the HSE in 2016
Community Healthcare Organisations (CHOs) were the subject of 3,984 complaints.
# health-service - Monday 11 December, 2017
Majority of patients wait longer than six hours in an emergency department to be seen by a doctor
The results of the first ever National Patient Experience Survey show that long waiting times continue to be a problem in Irish hospitals.
# health-service - Thursday 12 October, 2017
Susie Long's husband says 10 years after her death, people are still stuck on waiting lists
Susie Long created a national debate around the health service when she told Liveline she was going to die “because of hospital waiting lists”.
# health-service - Tuesday 5 September, 2017
'It's a serial killer': Detection rates on the rise as staff become 'sepsis aware'
Simon Harris said hospital staff are now trained to be more “sepsis aware”.
# health-service - Thursday 29 June, 2017
Man ready to leave National Rehab Hospital, but HSE says there's no money to support him at home
The Liveline Effect: Brendan Howlin says families feel they have to go public with their tragic stories to see action.
# health-service - Tuesday 30 May, 2017
'A watershed moment': TDs have come up with a plan to radically change the healthcare system
The report on the Future of Healthcare is set to be published today.
# health-service - Tuesday 7 February, 2017
Tom Clonan: 'In all our years attending Temple Street, I have never before seen so many sick children and parents'
There has been a steady, inexorable decline in Ireland’s health service over the past fifteen years, writes Dr Tom Clonan.
Simon Harris 'pleased to announce' Crumlin Hospital scoliosis theatre to open in April
It has emerged that there are an extra 80,000 people on hospital waiting lists outside the government’s official figures.
# health-service - Wednesday 4 January, 2017
Paramedics 'disturbed' over delays bringing patients to Emergency Departments
Siptu members said today that delays of between one and three hours have been observed across the country.
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Poll: Are you using the Covid-19 contact tracing app?
IT’S A WEEK since the launch of the HSE’s new Covid-19 contact tracing app.
Since then, the app has had well over one million downloads, with the take-up rate heralded as being “the most successful launch” of the app anywhere in the world by HSE CEO Paul Reid.
The app is intended to help contact tracing, particularly with people who aren’t family and friends, and uses Bluetooth technology to determine whether you’ve been a close contact of someone who’s tested positive for the virus.
Users are encouraged to switch on their Bluetooth settings, and to check in with their symptoms every day.
A week on from its launch, we’re asking: Are you using the Covid-19 contact tracing app?
Poll Results:
Yes, every day (1905)
Yes, but only every few days (962)
I never downloaded it (747)
No (592)
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Hospital doctor: Frontline workers have given their all - a second surge would be devastating
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