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# Health Service

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Gerry Adams paid Margaret Thatcher a rare compliment today
He said she ‘told it as it was’.
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Jan 27th 2016, 1:15 PM
Fianna Fáil's new ad lashes Enda Kenny's infamous promise
Gerry Adams agrees with the sentiment.
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Jan 13th 2016, 1:57 PM
This is Enda Kenny's biggest regret
The Taoiseach has been reflecting on nearly five years in office.
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Dec 29th 2015, 6:00 AM
'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.
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Dec 15th 2015, 6:15 PM
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.
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Nov 21st 2015, 7:30 AM
'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.
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Nov 10th 2015, 1:22 PM
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.
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Oct 3rd 2015, 2:15 PM
'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.
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Jul 30th 2015, 9:10 PM
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.
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Jun 4th 2015, 10:31 AM
25,000 children are waiting to get their first outpatient appointment
For 10,000 of them, their wait has been longer than six months.
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Apr 10th 2015, 11:59 PM
'Unfair and unjust': Proposed hike in nursing home bills slammed
Prime Time this evening reported on a review of the fair deal scheme.
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Apr 2nd 2015, 2:18 PM
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.
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Feb 25th 2015, 5:05 PM
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.
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Nov 27th 2014, 4:40 PM
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.
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Sep 24th 2014, 10:10 AM
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”.
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Sep 7th 2014, 7:49 PM
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.
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Jul 17th 2014, 6:30 PM
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.”
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Jun 6th 2014, 10:16 AM
RyanCare: The low cost healthcare company Ireland desperately needs
*fanfare* Congratulations on another early delivery, thanks to Ryancare!
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Apr 15th 2014, 5:40 PM
"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.
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Mar 28th 2014, 10:06 AM
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.
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Mar 21st 2014, 10:50 PM
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.
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Mar 21st 2014, 11:46 AM
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.
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Feb 7th 2014, 5:02 PM
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.
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Jan 31st 2014, 6:30 AM
'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.
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Jan 28th 2014, 9:31 AM
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.
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Jan 11th 2014, 7:30 AM
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.
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Jan 7th 2014, 6:30 AM
HSE to meet with voluntary hospitals today
Hospitals will be given until the end of the year to comply with HSE guidelines.
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Dec 12th 2013, 7:27 AM
"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.
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Nov 15th 2013, 10:21 AM
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.
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Nov 13th 2013, 10:53 AM
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.
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Nov 5th 2013, 10:14 PM
"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.
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Oct 21st 2013, 7:39 PM
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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Oct 7th 2013, 11:12 AM
Litany of failures in how HSE dealt with child's abuse allegations
The Ombudsman for Children upheld a complaint from the family and found that the HSE’s actions had negatively affected the young girl.
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Oct 1st 2013, 11:41 AM
Strike action now “inevitable” say junior doctors
The 24 hour action was postponed for a week, and then suspending indefinitely. But the IMO is now accusing the HSE of lacking “real engagement”.
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Sep 27th 2013, 11:15 PM
Here's how many people have left the HSE over the past four years
Hint: it’s a lot.
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Jul 21st 2013, 8:00 AM
HSE receives 2,700 applications for career breaks - far more than expected
The HSE had to turn down the vast majority of applications for the three year break as the number of applications had expected to number in the hundreds.
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Jul 6th 2013, 8:30 AM
Troika recommends cuts to specialist doctors' salaries
In a leaked document, the Troika suggests a number of radical measures to address the health service overspend including hiring specialists from abroad, cutting doctors’ pay and making savings on the cost of drugs.
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Jan 11th 2013, 11:25 AM
Criticism for HSE's 2013 service plan as health unions to be briefed
Unions representing health service workers will be briefed on the HSE’s national service plan announced yesterday as political reaction was less than positive towards the plan.
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Jan 11th 2013, 6:45 AM
Nurses' union demands boycott of graduate scheme over pay dispute
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation says graduate nurses should not have to work for 80 per cent of the usual wage.
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Dec 20th 2012, 3:29 PM
HSE to recruit up to 1,000 graduate nurses and midwives next year
The recruitment drive could save as much as €10 million by reducing the reliance on agency workers and overtime, the HSE said this evening.
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Dec 11th 2012, 7:20 PM
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