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Child being treated for acute form of hepatitis has died, HSE says
A second child being treated for the same illness has received a liver transplant.
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A second child being treated for the same illness has received a liver transplant.
Michelle Murray outlines how her husband Charles is living in a nursing home nearly two years after being discharged from hospital due to unsuitable housing.
The plan contains pledges to cut waiting lists and continue Ireland on the path to universal healthcare.
A plan to decarbonise HSE buildings will be published in March with a wider climate action plan to follow.
Today’s trolley figures have returned to similar pre-pandemic figures hit in 2019.
We see screening as something that is in the public ownership, Professor Niall O’Higgins said on why the public were being asked.
The healthcare initiative has suffered several resignations in recent weeks.
The office in charge of the reforms saw two key departures this week.
Rising cases of Covid-19 and other respiratory viruses pose difficulties for an “exhausted” health system.
The union said that some hospitals are approaching pre-pandemic levels of overcrowding.
People aged 85 and over will begin receiving a Covid-19 vaccine from Monday.
The HSE gave an update on the vaccination programme this afternoon.
Unions and healthcare workers on the ground have said the situation is at breaking point.
The INMO is also calling on the HSE to improve daily communications with staff.
The funding allows for hundreds of new beds.
Public service workers that were transferred to help with contact tracing will only return to their roles when the recruitment drive is complete.
New figures show the health service spent more than €1 million on advertising in the first two months of the crisis.
The government created a single-tier health service at the beginning of the crisis, but criticism of the contracts is ramping up.
Dr Catherine Motherway of University Hospital Limerick said the Irish health system may struggle if Covid-19 is not contained.
There were over 1,000 incidents reported last year where a member of staff had been assaulted.
The majority of healthcare staff attacked were nurses.
The five-year tender for a dynamic purchasing system will ensure good quality medicines are available on a timely basis, the HSE said.
The INMO has said that “it’s not hard to join the dots” between delays in staffing and the current trolley crisis.
There were 92 patients waiting for a bed at University Hospital Limerick, alone.
In total, it has €17.4 billion – a 6.3% increase in funding compared to 2019.
Opposition members are understood to be considering tabling a motion of no confidence against the health minister in the new year.
The Irish Medical Organisation warned of the potential for an “escalating campaign of industrial action”.
Carers bear a huge burden but are not being looked after.
There were 10,641 patients on trolleys in Irish hospitals last month.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has warned that “patients are being put at extreme risk” over the ongoing freeze.
As of 7am this morning, psychiatric nurses have not been carrying out work beyond their contracted hours.
Payouts have totalled €108 million for the first five months of 2019.
Harris said he believed the HSE was putting “sensible” controls in place.
The figures were released to Fianna Fáil’s Stephen Donnelly who called them “appalling and unacceptable”.
Up to 35 nurses could be affected.
Sláintecare is the cross-party plan to overhaul the Irish health service over ten years.
The Taoiseach said the government will be looking with ‘laser-like detail’ at how to get value for money in the health service.
Laura Magahy has led some other major Irish projects over the years.
More than half a million people are on outpatient waiting lists however the number of inpatients waiting has fallen slightly.