# healthcare - Monday 8 August, 2022
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
Non-consultant hospital doctors regularly move hospitals and must join a new payroll system each time.
# healthcare - Saturday 30 July, 2022
# Vaping
# Vaping
Professor Des Cox says it’s tempting to see e-cigarettes as a solution to smoking but he says that’s just not the case.
# healthcare - Wednesday 27 July, 2022
# Opinion
# Opinion
The health minister outlines new legislation agreed by Cabinet today for safe access zones outside abortion providers.
# healthcare - Thursday 21 July, 2022
# Vaping
# Vaping
Dr Garrett McGovern argues that banning e-cigarette flavours will increase smoking harm and death and will not protect young people.
# healthcare - Thursday 14 July, 2022
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
GPs and medics have been asked to review their records.
# healthcare - Tuesday 12 July, 2022
# Autism
# Autism
The Oireachtas Committee on Autism met this morning to discuss autism policy.
# healthcare - Thursday 30 June, 2022
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
Cases have been increasing in recent weeks due to the spread of subvariants of the Omicron strain.
# healthcare - Tuesday 28 June, 2022
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
Legislation enabling a free contraception scheme for women aged 17-25 is to be published in the coming days.
# 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 - Tuesday 21 June, 2022
# Ambulance Service
Representatives say staff numbers should at least double to tackle the current issues facing ambulance workers. Dozens have left the sector in recent times for a number of reasons, including burnout.
# healthcare - Monday 20 June, 2022
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
A majority of Irish people are pessimistic about the healthcare service, so what needs to change?
# healthcare - Monday 13 June, 2022
# Hospital
# Hospital
Medical emergencies such as heart attacks and strokes will no longer be treated at the hospital.
# healthcare - Sunday 5 June, 2022
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
The Good Information Project turned its focus to Ireland’s healthcare system over the past month.
# The Change
# The Change
After decades in the shadows, the menopause is finally starting to get the attention it merits.
# healthcare - Saturday 4 June, 2022
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
“The whole point of waiting lists is that you can’t fix them in a year.”
# healthcare - Friday 3 June, 2022
# Comparison
# Comparison
Our interactive graphs showing where Ireland ranks compared to other EU countries.
# Delayed Delivery
Staff vacancies in Child Disability Network Teams as high as 88% in one locality, reports Orla Dwyer. "Everything is a fight," say parents who report poor communication from teams. Therapist vacancies are highest, leaving children without services.
# healthcare - Tuesday 31 May, 2022
# TGIP Live
# TGIP Live
Peggy Maguire, Director of the European Institute of Women’s Health, on a quarter century of fighting for more data, more presence and more voice for women in health.
# healthcare - Friday 27 May, 2022
# Patient Power
# Patient Power
Watch our Open Newsroom session on how the patient advocacy movement could revolutionise health services – if they are listened to.
# Health In Ireland
The Irish healthcare system is frequently hit with criticism and suggestions for how it can be improved. Progress on the overhaul of the system is continuing but has been slow. We asked workers and those familiar with the sector what one change they would like to see put into place.
# healthcare - Thursday 26 May, 2022
# Inside Look
Surging inflation and global supply chain issues are creating challenges for the new National Children's Hospital, Lauren Boland reports. The Journal visited the site in Dublin 8, where construction is well underway. New features in the hospital include robots to transport materials and a tablet at each bed.
# healthcare - Tuesday 24 May, 2022
# Industrial Action
# Industrial Action
Non-consultant hospital doctors are currently balloting on whether to take industrial action over their working conditions.
# healthcare - Saturday 21 May, 2022
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
The claim has been made by government ministers and the HSE itself.
# healthcare - Thursday 19 May, 2022
# Abortion
# Abortion
Abortion services have yet to centrally commissioned in Northern Ireland due to a political impasse.
# healthcare - Tuesday 17 May, 2022
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
With Ireland now in a different phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, will lessons be learned from the crisis gone by?
# healthcare - Monday 16 May, 2022
# Out Of Here
The problem is not unique to Ireland but there are a lot of push factors in the Irish healthcare system, according to staff The situation is radically different in other countries, say nurses, doctors and physios who have left Ireland " I was in a theatre all day with one surgeon and I worked every day with him for a year and he didn’t know my name."
# healthcare - Sunday 15 May, 2022
# Healthcare
People on lower incomes and without health insurance were most likely to say that Ireland's healthcare system is worsening People earning over €80,000 were most likely to say that the system has stayed the same However, responses were split when it came to people's individual experiences of the system, reports Jack White
# healthcare - Wednesday 11 May, 2022
# Poll
# Poll
This month, The Good Information Project is looking at healthcare in Ireland and we want to hear from you.
# healthcare - Tuesday 10 May, 2022
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
This month, The Good Information Project is looking at healthcare in Ireland and we want to hear from you.
# healthcare - Sunday 8 May, 2022
# Health In Ireland
# Health In Ireland
This month, The Good Information Project will take a look at healthcare in Ireland.
# healthcare - Tuesday 3 May, 2022
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
The health minister and several medical professionals held a press conference this evening about the legal framework governing the new hospital.
# Roe V Wade
# Roe V Wade
The draft opinion would allow individual states to more heavily regulate or outright ban abortion.
# healthcare - Thursday 28 April, 2022
# Vincents Hospital Group
# Vincents Hospital Group
The development is part of years of debate about the ownership of the site of the new National Maternity Hospital.
# healthcare - Saturday 23 April, 2022
# Valproate
# Valproate
The medicine was prescribed without warnings to patients for years after regulators knew about its risks.
# healthcare - Thursday 21 April, 2022
# Overworked
Excessive overtime worked by junior doctors is causing burnout and unsafe working conditions, Lauren Boland reports. Junior doctors are regularly working hours far beyond what should be acceptable in Irish hospitals, doctors say. The HSE recorded 2.8 million hours of overtime for junior doctors last year.
# healthcare - Wednesday 16 February, 2022
# Hospital Parking
# Hospital Parking
The private members’ bill is being brought forward by the Aontú party.
# healthcare - Friday 4 February, 2022
# Cutting Emissions
# Cutting Emissions
A plan to decarbonise HSE buildings will be published in March with a wider climate action plan to follow.
# healthcare - Wednesday 2 February, 2022
# Overcrowding
A new study has suggested that one extra death may be caused for every 82 people waiting more than five hours. The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine has said that five hour waits are "normal" within Irish hospitals. Investment in beds is what's needed according to doctors, writes Rónán Duffy.
# healthcare - Monday 31 January, 2022
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
The IHCA is calling for the government to address a shortage of consultants.
# Emigration
Young doctors are leaving Ireland for Australia for a better work-life balance, better training opportunities, and a better working environment. There were 391 visa applications granted to Irish doctors last year - an increase of 59 visas, despite pandemic travel restrictions in place. Australia's retention policies for healthcare workers has been praised as something Ireland can learn from.
