# healthcare-workers - Tuesday 13 September, 2022
# RIP
# RIP
The Minister for Health said the scheme “offers some support from the state to provide for the family’s needs”.
# healthcare-workers - Sunday 3 July, 2022
# Long Covid
# Long Covid
Talks between unions on new sick pay schemes are ongoing.
# healthcare-workers - Tuesday 28 June, 2022
# Long Covid
# Long Covid
Healthcare workers have been receiving letters from their employer informing them that their special leave with pay will cease on 1 July.
# healthcare-workers - Thursday 2 June, 2022
# Covid Bonus
# Covid Bonus
The payment of the bonus was due to begin in April.
# healthcare-workers - Tuesday 8 March, 2022
# Essential Workers
# Essential Workers
The HPSC reports that 22 healthcare workers have died having contracted Covid.
# healthcare-workers - Wednesday 19 January, 2022
# Pandemic
# Pandemic
In addition, from 2023 there will be a new annual public holiday at the start of February.
# healthcare-workers - Tuesday 2 November, 2021
# Healthcare Workers
# Healthcare Workers
It is expected that the rollout of booster jabs to healthcare workers could be completed in a number of weeks.
# healthcare-workers - Thursday 23 September, 2021
# Covid Bonus
# Covid Bonus
Michael McGrath said the Government will be dealing with the matter in the next few weeks.
# healthcare-workers - Monday 16 August, 2021
# Recognition
# Recognition
The unions said said the delay was “deeply damaging” to the morale of all health care workers.
# healthcare-workers - Thursday 5 August, 2021
# HSE
# HSE
The HSE said that it is expected that the recognition issue will be addressed in the autumn.
# healthcare-workers - Friday 30 July, 2021
# Frontline
# Frontline
The Health Minister was speaking after touring the HSE’s Limerick Covid-19 vaccination centre.
# healthcare-workers - Wednesday 16 June, 2021
# Front Line
# Front Line
Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu conferred the Freedom of the City to Dr Tony Holohan at a private ceremony.
# healthcare-workers - Tuesday 9 February, 2021
# On The Frontline
# On The Frontline
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation will call for the measure before an Oireachtas committee this morning.
# Frontline
# Frontline
An Oireachtas committee will meet with healthcare representative organisations later this morning.
# healthcare-workers - Saturday 23 January, 2021
# Frontline
# Frontline
Current supply is being used to provide second doses to those who have already received their first dose.
# healthcare-workers - Friday 22 January, 2021
# Classy Gesture
From The42
# Classy Gesture
Commissioner Roger Goodell said the workers — mostly from hospitals and health care centres in Tampa and Florida — were being recognised for their service during the pandemic.
# healthcare-workers - Saturday 16 January, 2021
# Vaccinated
# Vaccinated
A requirement for travellers into Ireland to produce evidence of a negative test result has also come into effect.
# healthcare-workers - Friday 15 January, 2021
# Healthcare Workers
# Healthcare Workers
Beacon Hospital has not signed up to allow its ICU capacity be used by the public system.
# healthcare-workers - Friday 8 January, 2021
# healthcare-workers - Tuesday 15 December, 2020
# Healthcare Workers
# Healthcare Workers
61 nurses contracted the virus in the most recent week for which figures are available.
# healthcare-workers - Monday 30 November, 2020
# Nurses
# Nurses
Nurses account for almost a third of all healthcare worker cases of Covid-19.
# healthcare-workers - Tuesday 13 October, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
Healthcare workers have since the beginning of the pandemic been disproportionately affected by the crisis.
# healthcare-workers - Tuesday 6 October, 2020
# Antibody Testing
# Antibody Testing
Antibody testing determines whether you had Covid-19 in the past and now have antibodies against the virus.
# healthcare-workers - Sunday 27 September, 2020
# HSE
# HSE
Data from the UK suggests that BAME healthcare workers were more likely to die from Covid-19.
# healthcare-workers - Saturday 12 September, 2020
# Flu Season
# Flu Season
Rates of healthcare worker vaccine uptake, particularly in nursing homes, remain low.
# healthcare-workers - Tuesday 18 August, 2020
# Paid Parking
# Paid Parking
500 parking spaces have been allocated for healthcare workers in city centre car parks.
# healthcare-workers - Tuesday 11 August, 2020
# No Charge
# No Charge
Healthcare workers were not being charged to park in the vicinity of hospitals during the pandemic.
# healthcare-workers - Saturday 8 August, 2020
# HSE
# HSE
Sinn Féin’s David Cullinane said that those who applied did so “in good faith” and that these staff will be needed ahead of the winter season.
# healthcare-workers - Friday 12 June, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
The INMO wants Covid-19 to be classed as a personal injury under health and safety legislation.
# healthcare-workers - Monday 1 June, 2020
# HSE
# HSE
Guidance regarding immunity and healthcare workers was compiled by the HSE.
# healthcare-workers - Thursday 14 May, 2020
# Front Line
# Front Line
The government announced that a childcare scheme for healthcare workers had to be scrapped.
# healthcare-workers - Wednesday 13 May, 2020
# Cancelled
# Cancelled
The scheme was launched last week and was due to begin on Monday.
# healthcare-workers - Thursday 7 May, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
There have been 164 confirmed cases of Covid-19 among residents in Direct Provision centres to date.
# healthcare-workers - Wednesday 6 May, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
Trade union Fórsa has requested more information on what the plan entails.
# healthcare-workers - Thursday 30 April, 2020
# Proposal
# Proposal
Dr Tony Holohan wrote to Simon Harris about the potential for “registered childcare workers [to] provide support” in a healthcare worker’s home.
# Front Line
# Front Line
The HSE had initially said that pregnant staff were safe to work with Covid-19 patients.
# healthcare-workers - Tuesday 28 April, 2020
# On The Frontline
# On The Frontline
Previous proposals to support healthcare workers with childcare provision had been described as inadequate by unions.
# healthcare-workers - Friday 24 April, 2020
# Frontline
# Frontline
It is the first time that the number of fatalities of frontline workers have been confirmed.
# healthcare-workers - Wednesday 22 April, 2020
# Healthcare Workers
# Healthcare Workers
Varadkar said that other childcare proposals are being considered for after 5 May.
# healthcare-workers - Friday 3 April, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
The Irish government has spent over €200 million on PPE from countries such as China.
Breezy; a shower this morning
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Min: 6 °C
Mostly cloudy
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Cloudy, a little rain in the afternoon
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