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The report on the Future of Healthcare is set to be published today.
There has been a steady, inexorable decline in Ireland’s health service over the past fifteen years, writes Dr Tom Clonan.
It has emerged that there are an extra 80,000 people on hospital waiting lists outside the government’s official figures.
Siptu members said today that delays of between one and three hours have been observed across the country.
The HSE is hosting three open recruitment days for nurses and midwives in Dublin over the Christmas period.
Siptu has announced a ballot of more than 25,000 support staff.
The INMO General Secretary made a series of claims on Claire Byrne Live this week. Here’s our FactCheck roundup.
Tommy Broughan said the figures are “staggering”.
Didn’t catch RTÉ’s new documentary about the health service? Here’s what you missed.
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.
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.
A report in the Sunday Business Post says a report will recommend their closure.
A Hiqa study has found some deficiencies in patient choices.
And the INMO says many are going to go.
He said she ‘told it as it was’.
Gerry Adams agrees with the sentiment.
The Taoiseach has been reflecting on nearly five years in office.
Last minute negotiations have seen strike action averted.
It’s over 10,000, with 2,352 waiting for over a year.
Fianna Fáil says the Health Minister is “observing from a distance” rather than taking action.
The Health Minister has also said that consultants are due to have their pay restored.
Health minister Leo Varadkar has sought to reassure patients waiting on a pancreas transplant.
The National Rare Diseases Office was opened today by the Health Minister.
For 10,000 of them, their wait has been longer than six months.
Prime Time this evening reported on a review of the fair deal scheme.
The opposition think Varadkar speaks like a health commentator, while Shatter is “confused” by his former cabinet colleague.
The Health Minister also ruled out a General Election in 2015.
A programme to install public access defibrillators around the country has been looked at.
New Health Minister Leo Varadkar was recently told Reilly’s HSE reforms were “unworkable”.
Legislation passed today includes an amendment to ban gagging orders on doctors that was put forward by Senator John Crown.
“I am saying questions were asked that were not those questions, but which may have been interpreted as that.”
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Martin Dunne has stood by his words on a Prime Time investigation which detailed major shortcomings in the National Ambulance Service.
A second ambulance sent to transport the baby is also believed to have developed mechanical problems before eventually reaching Dublin from Cork.
The IMO say that the last five years has seen seven years’ worth of Irish qualified GPs move to the UK.
Up to 33 per cent of hospitals have not made sufficient progress and are to be penalised according to the union.
The remainder of the total workforce expected to stay for another week or two.
Six hours of debate on the controversial HSE Service Plan have been reduced to three, prompting outrage from Fianna Fáil.
Hospital action groups from around the country are coming together to plan an ongoing national campaign.