# hospitals - Monday 29 June, 2015
Minister Leo Varadkar revealed the figures today.
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# hospitals - Thursday 2 April, 2015
Hospital waiting lists and overcrowding are among the biggest problems facing the health service.
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# hospitals - Friday 20 March, 2015
HIQA says all hospitals could do more to improve hand hygiene.
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# hospitals - Wednesday 18 March, 2015
Disease-related malnutrition remains a major cause of avoidable complications in our hospitals.
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# hospitals - Thursday 26 February, 2015
Gerry Feeney’s family say he was treated as if he was invisible.
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# hospitals - Friday 20 February, 2015
The Health Minister says he’s working on it but the waiting lists have swelled by almost a third since this time last year.
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# hospitals - Tuesday 10 February, 2015
7,000 people have been waiting for a scan for more than one year.
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# hospitals - Saturday 7 February, 2015
The average age of those admitted is 59.
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# hospitals - Wednesday 4 February, 2015
INMO figures show there were 518 people waiting on trolleys in emergency departments and on wards yesterday.
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# hospitals - Wednesday 14 January, 2015
The Health Minister said no one wants to sort out the overcrowding crisis more than he does.
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# hospitals - Tuesday 13 January, 2015
Denis Naughten TD has reacted to a HSE report that finds Ireland is too rural for the service to meet its targets.
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# hospitals - Monday 12 January, 2015
Minister for Health Leo Varadkar said significant progress had been made in tackling the country’s overcrowding issues.
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# hospitals - Sunday 11 January, 2015
We’re “not out of the woods yet” according to the Health Minister.
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# hospitals - Wednesday 7 January, 2015
The Health Minister said the problem is going to get worse next week.
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It’s a very similar story in England.
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There were a total of 584 people waiting for available hospital beds as of this morning.
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Comments from GPs come after it emerged there are record numbers of people waiting on trollies in hospitals around the country.
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# hospitals - Monday 5 January, 2015
A record number of people are now waiting for beds, with the INMO saying industrial action is likely due to ‘chronic overcrowding’.
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# hospitals - Sunday 21 December, 2014
The HSE was accused of having ‘hidden waiting lists’ today.
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# hospitals - Thursday 27 November, 2014
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
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# hospitals - Wednesday 26 November, 2014
An early warning system in maternity hospitals is to be standardised.
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# hospitals - Thursday 23 October, 2014
The Health Minister says the system he is now in charge of is different.
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# hospitals - Monday 29 September, 2014
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has called on the HSE to immediately recruit more staff at MRHM.
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# hospitals - Wednesday 24 September, 2014
The figure increased by 50,000 from January to July.
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# hospitals - Monday 15 September, 2014
The INMO said today nurses are finishing shifts “in a distressed state, experiencing burnout and frustration at the lack of action”.
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# hospitals - Wednesday 3 September, 2014
Children with spina bifida need complex treatment – more than half aren’t getting it.
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# hospitals - Friday 29 August, 2014
The INMO says a block on hiring is making the problem worse.
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# hospitals - Friday 8 August, 2014
Five hospitals increased by between 75% to 187% in comparison to the same period last year.
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# hospitals - Sunday 27 July, 2014
The programme will help hospitals in Zambia and Uganda.
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# hospitals - Tuesday 15 July, 2014
The Oireachtas Health Committee launched its report on end-of-life care this afternoon.
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# hospitals - Friday 27 June, 2014
The issue centred on what the HSE is doing to mitigate the risks to patients who are waiting transfers in EDs to inpatient beds.
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# hospitals - Friday 20 June, 2014
In a massive Europe-wide study, more than half of Irish people said it was likely that patients could be harmed by hospital care in Ireland.
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# hospitals - Monday 16 June, 2014
Several events are taking place today to mark International Justice Day for Cleaners.
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# hospitals - Saturday 14 June, 2014
The HSE says the department will be fully staffed, but did not comment on the cost.
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# hospitals - Tuesday 20 May, 2014
In the wake of the resignation of the Beaumont Hospital Clinical Director, a local TD wants psychiatric services in Dublin examined.
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# hospitals - Monday 19 May, 2014
The health minister also cast doubts on the savings targets.
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# hospitals - Wednesday 23 April, 2014
The structure of one ward was described as “not suitable for residents”.
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# hospitals - Wednesday 16 April, 2014
New research at TCD is looking to find out which strains will become the most dominant.
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# hospitals - Tuesday 15 April, 2014
Women in private hospitals are far more likely to choose to have a caesarean delivery.
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