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# Changes

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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# Health Service

'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

# Health Service

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

# join the queue

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

# no fair deal

'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

# detached

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

# HSE Service plan

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

# Save a life

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

# Health Service

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

# Pledge

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

# Medical Cards

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

# for your health

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

# Emergency Services

"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

# dangerous delay

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

# Across the water

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

# union strife

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

# closed for business

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

# HSE Service plan

'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

# Health Cuts

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

# Medical Cards

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

# crc

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

# Working Hours

"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

# Health Service

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

# Health Service

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

# Going nowhere

"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

# flu vaccine

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

# Sexual Abuse

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

# doctors strike

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

# Departures

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

# Health Service

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

# Euroleaks

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

# Health Service

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

# Nursing

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

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

# need to know

The Evening Fix...now with added live news anchor proposal

Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.

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Dec 8th 2012, 7:43 PM

# Health

Junior doctors warn Health Minister they will emigrate

Over 800 junior doctors have warned James Reilly that the agenda to portray the medical profession as though it is driven by greed is creating “deep unease”.

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Nov 30th 2012, 8:48 AM