# hospitals - Wednesday 19 October, 2011
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
James Reilly says he had tried to fill vacancies at hospitals in Galway and Limerick internally, before considering external candidates.
# hospitals - Thursday 13 October, 2011
# Closure
# Closure
A local doctor has expressed fears over the closure at the city’s South Infirmary, which was announced today.
# hospitals - Tuesday 11 October, 2011
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation says a bed capacity problem means an urgent need to re-open closed benches.
# hospitals - Saturday 8 October, 2011
# Protest
# Protest
Emergency 24-hour care at the hospital is due to be suspended, in the same way as in Roscommon.
# hospitals - Thursday 6 October, 2011
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
Staff at Connolly Hospital are told the hospital is €5m over budget – and that 28 beds must be cut in order to lower costs.
# hospitals - Monday 26 September, 2011
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
The Irish Association of Emergency Medicine believes changing the management of emergency departments could save hundreds of lives.
# hospitals - Wednesday 21 September, 2011
# Junior Doctors
# Junior Doctors
Almost half the junior doctors recruited in India and Pakistan earlier this year have not been able to join hospital teams.
# hospitals - Thursday 8 September, 2011
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
There were 251 complaints and 1,954 near miss/incidents and security events at the hospital between the months of January and September 2010, according to reports.
# hospitals - Wednesday 7 September, 2011
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
The warning comes as it emerged just 60 of nearly 300 doctors recruited from India and Pakistan have been registered to begin working.
# hospitals - Monday 5 September, 2011
# Trolleywatch
# Trolleywatch
The number of people on trolleys rose 106 per cent between August 2007 and 2011.
# hospitals - Saturday 3 September, 2011
# Opinion
# Opinion
We all hope for a good death – but in the current system not many of us will get one, writes Sharon Foley of the Irish Hospice Foundation.
# hospitals - Wednesday 31 August, 2011
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
Services within the HSE West hospital structure are to be re-balanced in a bid to reduce waiting times at University Hospital Galway, with some non-critical facilities to be moved within the month.
# hospitals - Friday 12 August, 2011
# HIQA
# HIQA
The four investigations were carried out by the Health Information and Quality Authority.
# hospitals - Sunday 7 August, 2011
# Daily Fix
# Daily Fix
In today’s Fix: Fears of more violence in London, the return of ‘Doctor Doom’ and how having 200 TV channels is now officially a human right..
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
Emergency departments in several more smaller hospitals could be forced to close, a medical association has warned.
# hospitals - Thursday 4 August, 2011
# HSE
# HSE
The latest HSE performance report shows the extent of the overspend for the first six months of the year.
# hospitals - Friday 29 July, 2011
# hospitals - Tuesday 26 July, 2011
# Catholic Church
# Catholic Church
Mothers have described being shackled and sedated as their newborn children were taken away in Church-run hospitals.
# hospitals - Thursday 21 July, 2011
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
The patients died after blood-sugar drug insulin was added to containers of saline solution at the Manchester facility.
# hospitals - Wednesday 20 July, 2011
# Doctors
# Doctors
The Irish Medical Council said there was a 22 per cent increase in complaints last year.
# hospitals - Saturday 16 July, 2011
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
Police in the northwest of England are searching for the person who tampered with the saline drips.
# hospitals - Friday 15 July, 2011
# HSE
# HSE
The executive will only fill the most critical of vacancies as it battles to avoid financial disaster.
# hospitals - Thursday 14 July, 2011
# HSE
# HSE
A new HSE performance report shows that it has overspent its budget by €170 million up to the end of May – with most of that being overspent by hospitals.
# Alcohol
# Alcohol
Young to middle-aged men were the most likely to spend the night in hospital because of alcohol-related health problems.
# hospitals - Tuesday 12 July, 2011
# hospitals - Friday 8 July, 2011
# Daily Fix
# Daily Fix
In today’s Fix: leaked NOTW audio; the end of an era for NASA’s shuttles; and no more casual Fridays at the Dáil…
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
The Health Minister insisted plans to reduce services at regional hospitals are still “being discussed”.
# hospitals - Wednesday 6 July, 2011
# Health
# Health
Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation new mobile phone updater allows you to see how many patients are on trolleys around the country at any given time. It makes for stark reading.
# hospitals - Saturday 2 July, 2011
# Patients
# Patients
Demonstrators say the facility is seriously under resourced. Meanwhile a protest about Roscommon County Hospital is planned for Leinster House for Wednesday.
# hospitals - Friday 1 July, 2011
# Opinion
# Opinion
One young medic describes the sometimes nightmarish world of hospital staff shortages to TheJournal.ie.
# hospitals - Monday 27 June, 2011
# Anger
# Anger
The Taoiseach has confirmed that the hospital’s emergency department will no longer be 24/7.
# hospitals - Thursday 16 June, 2011
# In-feck-tious
From The Daily Edge
# In-feck-tious
Doctors are naming troublesome patients after foul-mouthed Fr Jack Hackett, a list of hospital slang reveals.
# hospitals - Monday 13 June, 2011
# Opinion
# Opinion
Tony Kavanagh’s life as he knew it ended when a routine operation left him with MRSA. He tells TheJournal.ie about going from a thriving business career to the brink of death.
# hospitals - Tuesday 31 May, 2011
# hospitals - Saturday 16 April, 2011
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# hospitals - Tuesday 12 April, 2011
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# hospitals - Monday 14 March, 2011
# HSE
# HSE
Agency staff at hospitals have been advised not to present themselves for works after the HSE announced plans to cut their rate of pay.
# Japan
# Japan
Some hospitals have been left without food, power or running water.
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