Hundreds of patients referred to private fund – only to be seen by same consultant
Hundreds of consultants referred patients to the National Treatment Purchase Fund – and ended up treating them a second time.
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Hundreds of consultants referred patients to the National Treatment Purchase Fund – and ended up treating them a second time.
Hospital staff say emergency departments are in crisis – but how is the experience for patients? Clare Kleinedler writes about the night she found out…
Cathal Magee will face questions about the health service crisis when he appears before an Oireachtas committee.
In parliamentary party meetings today, Dr James Reilly indicated he would frontload the cuts his department is facing in the coming year and says frontline services will be hit.
Dozens of patients on trolleys and a handful of nurses struggling to keep up – emergency department nurse Anne Burke tells TheJournal.ie about a system in crisis.
Susie Long died after waiting seven months for a colonoscopy that private patients could have within days – and healthcare inequality is still rife, writes her husband Conor Mac Liam.
The executive will only fill the most critical of vacancies as it battles to avoid financial disaster.
The Taoiseach has insisted he was forced to backtrack on campaign pledges by safety fears at Roscommon A&E.
One young medic describes the sometimes nightmarish world of hospital staff shortages to TheJournal.ie.
Dr James Reilly said more than 200 posts are still unfilled as he revealed plans to shut down A&E services at one hospital.
One of the costliest inventions of the Celtic Tiger continues to haunt Ireland.
Blanchardstown’s Connolly hospital fairs worst.
TEEU members set to strike at St James’s Hospital.