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# health-service - Saturday 26 November, 2016
FactCheck: Nursing union leader Liam Doran's claims about the Irish health service
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
The HSE spent nearly €200 million on agency staff in seven months
Tommy Broughan said the figures are “staggering”.
# health-service - Tuesday 30 August, 2016
'They thought he might not make it': 24 hours in Ireland's hospitals
Didn’t catch RTÉ’s new documentary about the health service? Here’s what you missed.
# health-service - Wednesday 10 August, 2016
There were more patients on trolleys last month than in any July in the past decade
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
There are 11,519 children waiting over a year to be seen in an Irish hospital Exclusive
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
Trauma units in nine hospitals could be set for the chop
A report in the Sunday Business Post says a report will recommend their closure.
# health-service - Friday 27 May, 2016
‘Chicken’ or ‘fish’? Irish patients need more details about their hospital food
A Hiqa study has found some deficiencies in patient choices.
# health-service - Tuesday 19 April, 2016
Foreign hospitals are looking to hire Irish nurses this weekend
And the INMO says many are going to go.
# health-service - Wednesday 27 January, 2016
Gerry Adams paid Margaret Thatcher a rare compliment today
He said she ‘told it as it was’.
# health-service - Wednesday 13 January, 2016
Fianna Fáil's new ad lashes Enda Kenny's infamous promise
Gerry Adams agrees with the sentiment.
# health-service - Tuesday 29 December, 2015
This is Enda Kenny's biggest regret
The Taoiseach has been reflecting on nearly five years in office.
# health-service - Tuesday 15 December, 2015
'A patient could come in with a heart attack and wait on a trolley': Life for Ireland's emergency department nurses
Last minute negotiations have seen strike action averted.
# health-service - Saturday 21 November, 2015
The number of people on Beaumont Hospital waiting lists shows why the place is overcrowded
It’s over 10,000, with 2,352 waiting for over a year.
# health-service - Tuesday 10 November, 2015
'Leo needs to accept he's not the David Attenborough of the health service'
Fianna Fáil says the Health Minister is “observing from a distance” rather than taking action.
# health-service - Saturday 3 October, 2015
Leo announces plans to get rid of HSE within five years
The Health Minister has also said that consultants are due to have their pay restored.
# health-service - Thursday 30 July, 2015
'I’m afraid that by the time they sort this out, I'll be too weak for a transplant'
Health minister Leo Varadkar has sought to reassure patients waiting on a pancreas transplant.
# health-service - Thursday 4 June, 2015
A new specialist centre hopes to pin down tough to diagnose rare diseases
The National Rare Diseases Office was opened today by the Health Minister.
# health-service - Friday 10 April, 2015
25,000 children are waiting to get their first outpatient appointment
For 10,000 of them, their wait has been longer than six months.
# health-service - Thursday 2 April, 2015
'Unfair and unjust': Proposed hike in nursing home bills slammed
Prime Time this evening reported on a review of the fair deal scheme.
# health-service - Wednesday 25 February, 2015
Even Alan Shatter has had a go at Leo Varadkar today
The opposition think Varadkar speaks like a health commentator, while Shatter is “confused” by his former cabinet colleague.
# health-service - Thursday 27 November, 2014
Varadkar: Running health service is like feeding the 5,000 with loaves and fish
The Health Minister also ruled out a General Election in 2015.
# health-service - Wednesday 24 September, 2014
The public could become life savers under a new plan to fight cardiac arrests
A programme to install public access defibrillators around the country has been looked at.
# health-service - Sunday 7 September, 2014
Taoiseach "dismissed" Shortall's concerns over Reilly's health service reforms
New Health Minister Leo Varadkar was recently told Reilly’s HSE reforms were “unworkable”.
# health-service - Thursday 17 July, 2014
The government says children under six will have free GP care later this year
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
HSE boss: We never asked parents to prove children still had lifelong conditions
“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
RyanCare: The low cost healthcare company Ireland desperately needs
*fanfare* Congratulations on another early delivery, thanks to Ryancare!
# health-service - Friday 28 March, 2014
"I'm not in denial of anything" - Ambulance chief defends 'best in the world' comment
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
Ambulance broke down on the way to take a baby to hospital
A second ambulance sent to transport the baby is also believed to have developed mechanical problems before eventually reaching Dublin from Cork.
It's not only nurses that have emigrated to find work. Guess how many GPs have?
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
Remember the '24 No More' campaign? Hospitals still aren't complying say IMO
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
Mount Carmel will deliver its final baby today as 200 staff leave the hospital
The remainder of the total workforce expected to stay for another week or two.
# health-service - Tuesday 28 January, 2014
'In my 21 years in Leinster House I cannot remember anything like this happening before'
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
Large scale 'day of action' planned as local groups form National Hospital Campaign
Hospital action groups from around the country are coming together to plan an ongoing national campaign.
# health-service - Tuesday 7 January, 2014
Over 700,000 more medical cards have been issued in the last decade
The biggest leap was between 2011 and 2012, when over 150,000 extra cards were released.
# health-service - Thursday 12 December, 2013
HSE to meet with voluntary hospitals today
Hospitals will be given until the end of the year to comply with HSE guidelines.
# health-service - Friday 15 November, 2013
"We are putting our trust in the HSE" - junior doctors
Junior doctors have voted to accept a proposal to end shifts lasting more than 24 hours.
# health-service - Wednesday 13 November, 2013
TD: Indian-born doctors are being used as a 'band-aid' in Irish hospitals
Waterford deputy John Halligan says many Indian doctors are likely to leave the country as they’re not being afforded the same rights as their Irish colleagues.
# health-service - Tuesday 5 November, 2013
Hospital chiefs write to HSE saying cuts are threatening patient safety
A report on RTÉ’s Prime Time this evening claimed that hospital chief executives have warned of delays in cancer treatment due to budgetary reductions.
# health-service - Monday 21 October, 2013
"I think it's a bit rich of Mícheál Martin"- James Reilly resists calls to resign
Reilly has come under increased pressure about spending and savings figures within the Department of Health.
# health-service - Monday 7 October, 2013
Vaccine reminder issued as HSE says 1,000 could die in severe flu season
Those in at-risk groups can get the vaccine free-of-charge from their GP or pharmacy.
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Poll: Will you take up a new hobby over the next few weeks?
LAST WEEK, TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar announced further restrictions for a two-week period until Easter Sunday, 12 April.
Everybody in Ireland has been told to stay at home for two weeks, except essential workers travelling to work and other exceptions.
People who do leave their homes for exercise will be required to stay within a 2km radius.
Shielding or cocooning has also be introduced for all of those over 70 years of age and specific categories of people who are extremely vulnerable to Covid-19.
With everyone being asked to stay at home, people may find themselves with a lot more free time on their hands than usual.
So, today we want to know: Will you take up a new hobby over the next few weeks?
Poll Results:
No, I'm still working and haven't got a minute (3488)
Yes, I plan to take up a new hobby (1995)
No, I'll spend my time staring at the TV (1378)
I'm not sure / no opinion (1093)
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
Wellness Wednesday: IBS is no joke, but there are simple things you can do to help yourself
By Dr Deirdre G. O'Donovan
Opinion: Boris is England’s King Midas. All he touched turned to gold, but now must be disinfected
By Peter Flanagan - @peterflanagan
Peter Flanagan says Covid-19 has stripped Johnson of his dreams of a clean Brexit legacy.
Opinion: Emergency Covid-19 legislation harks back to the Civil War, ‘the Emergency’ and the Troubles
By Conor Casey
Conor Casey of Trinity College says a challenge to the new legislation would be unlikely to succeed.
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