# health-service - Thursday 29 June, 2017
# Illogical
# Illogical
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
# Irish Nhs
# Irish Nhs
The report on the Future of Healthcare is set to be published today.
# health-service - Tuesday 7 February, 2017
# Living On The List
# Living On The List
There has been a steady, inexorable decline in Ireland’s health service over the past fifteen years, writes Dr Tom Clonan.
# Timely
# Timely
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
# Perfect Storm
# Perfect Storm
Siptu members said today that delays of between one and three hours have been observed across the country.
# health-service - Thursday 29 December, 2016
# Homeward Bound
# Homeward Bound
The HSE is hosting three open recruitment days for nurses and midwives in Dublin over the Christmas period.
# health-service - Wednesday 28 December, 2016
# Trouble Ahead
# Trouble Ahead
Siptu has announced a ballot of more than 25,000 support staff.
# health-service - Saturday 26 November, 2016
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The INMO General Secretary made a series of claims on Claire Byrne Live this week. Here’s our FactCheck roundup.
# health-service - Sunday 9 October, 2016
# Nurses
# Nurses
Tommy Broughan said the figures are “staggering”.
# health-service - Tuesday 30 August, 2016
# Keeping Ireland Alive
# Keeping Ireland Alive
Didn’t catch RTÉ’s new documentary about the health service? Here’s what you missed.
# health-service - Wednesday 10 August, 2016
# HSE
# HSE
However, in a statement to TheJournal.ie, the HSE disputed the INMO narrative, saying that the trolley count for yesterday showed an an overall reduction compared to the same date last year.
# health-service - Thursday 21 July, 2016
# HSE
# HSE
An analysis by TheJournal.ie of data shows the average number of children waiting over 12 months on the inpatient list over the last two years is 1,605% higher than in the two years before that.
# health-service - Sunday 10 July, 2016
A report in the Sunday Business Post says a report will recommend their closure.
# health-service - Friday 27 May, 2016
# On The Menu
# On The Menu
A Hiqa study has found some deficiencies in patient choices.
# health-service - Tuesday 19 April, 2016
# Out The Door
# Out The Door
And the INMO says many are going to go.
# health-service - Wednesday 27 January, 2016
# Bit Late
# Bit Late
He said she ‘told it as it was’.
# health-service - Wednesday 13 January, 2016
# Election 2016
# Election 2016
Gerry Adams agrees with the sentiment.
# health-service - Tuesday 29 December, 2015
# Looking Back
# Looking Back
The Taoiseach has been reflecting on nearly five years in office.
# health-service - Tuesday 15 December, 2015
# Nurses Strike
# Nurses Strike
Last minute negotiations have seen strike action averted.
# health-service - Saturday 21 November, 2015
# Get In The Queue
# Get In The Queue
It’s over 10,000, with 2,352 waiting for over a year.
# health-service - Tuesday 10 November, 2015
# Trolley Crisis
# Trolley Crisis
Fianna Fáil says the Health Minister is “observing from a distance” rather than taking action.
# health-service - Saturday 3 October, 2015
# Changes
# Changes
The Health Minister has also said that consultants are due to have their pay restored.
# health-service - Thursday 30 July, 2015
# Health Service
# Health Service
Health minister Leo Varadkar has sought to reassure patients waiting on a pancreas transplant.
# health-service - Thursday 4 June, 2015
# Health Service
# Health Service
The National Rare Diseases Office was opened today by the Health Minister.
# health-service - Friday 10 April, 2015
# Join The Queue
# Join The Queue
For 10,000 of them, their wait has been longer than six months.
# health-service - Thursday 2 April, 2015
# No Fair Deal
# No Fair Deal
Prime Time this evening reported on a review of the fair deal scheme.
# health-service - Wednesday 25 February, 2015
# Detached
# Detached
The opposition think Varadkar speaks like a health commentator, while Shatter is “confused” by his former cabinet colleague.
# health-service - Thursday 27 November, 2014
# HSE Service Plan
# HSE Service Plan
The Health Minister also ruled out a General Election in 2015.
# health-service - Wednesday 24 September, 2014
# Save A Life
# Save A Life
A programme to install public access defibrillators around the country has been looked at.
# health-service - Sunday 7 September, 2014
# Health Service
# Health Service
New Health Minister Leo Varadkar was recently told Reilly’s HSE reforms were “unworkable”.
# health-service - Thursday 17 July, 2014
# Pledge
# Pledge
Legislation passed today includes an amendment to ban gagging orders on doctors that was put forward by Senator John Crown.
# health-service - Friday 6 June, 2014
# Medical Cards
# Medical Cards
“I am saying questions were asked that were not those questions, but which may have been interpreted as that.”
# health-service - Tuesday 15 April, 2014
# For Your Health
From The Daily Edge
# For Your Health
*fanfare* Congratulations on another early delivery, thanks to Ryancare!
# health-service - Friday 28 March, 2014
# Emergency Services
# Emergency Services
Martin Dunne has stood by his words on a Prime Time investigation which detailed major shortcomings in the National Ambulance Service.
# health-service - Friday 21 March, 2014
# Dangerous Delay
# Dangerous Delay
A second ambulance sent to transport the baby is also believed to have developed mechanical problems before eventually reaching Dublin from Cork.
# Across The Water
# Across The Water
The IMO say that the last five years has seen seven years’ worth of Irish qualified GPs move to the UK.
# health-service - Friday 7 February, 2014
# Union Strife
# Union Strife
Up to 33 per cent of hospitals have not made sufficient progress and are to be penalised according to the union.
# health-service - Friday 31 January, 2014
# Closed For Business
# Closed For Business
The remainder of the total workforce expected to stay for another week or two.
# health-service - Tuesday 28 January, 2014
# HSE Service Plan
# HSE Service Plan
Six hours of debate on the controversial HSE Service Plan have been reduced to three, prompting outrage from Fianna Fáil.
# health-service - Saturday 11 January, 2014
# Health Cuts
# Health Cuts
Hospital action groups from around the country are coming together to plan an ongoing national campaign.
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