# hospitals - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
# Running Costs
# Running Costs
New figures show a significant discrepancy in the weekly costs of providing long-term residential care for elderly people.
# hospitals - Monday 5 March, 2018
# Storm Emma
# Storm Emma
During the course of Storm Emma, the HSE saw a 41% reduction in attendances at Emergency Departments.
# hospitals - Wednesday 28 February, 2018
# Severe Weather
# Severe Weather
Three children’s hospitals are also cancelling planned admissions and outpatient appointments.
# hospitals - Tuesday 6 February, 2018
# Er
# Er
A specialist trauma unit will also be located in a third location.
# hospitals - Tuesday 30 January, 2018
# Injured
# Injured
Fifteen cyclists died in road traffic incidents last year.
# hospitals - Wednesday 10 January, 2018
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
The Taoiseach said he was speaking as both a doctor and a grandson whose grandmother is “regularly in and out of hospital”.
# hospitals - Monday 8 January, 2018
# Stark Warning
# Stark Warning
A senior doctor has warned that the system cannot deal with the day-to-day workload.
# hospitals - Tuesday 2 January, 2018
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
A record high of 656 people were waiting on trolleys as 2018 began, according to the INMO.
# Postponed Surgeries
# Postponed Surgeries
Elective surgeries have been postponed in some hospitals in a bid to prioritise emergencies.
# hospitals - Friday 8 December, 2017
# Irish Hospitals
# Irish Hospitals
Bully and sexual harassment remain common in Ireland’s medical workplaces, according to the IMO.
# hospitals - Thursday 9 November, 2017
# INMO
# INMO
The INMO said the overcrowding situation is having a “serious, detrimental and harmful effect” on patients.
# hospitals - Thursday 19 October, 2017
# Storm Ophelia
# Storm Ophelia
There was some confusion over what employees should do in the event of national red weather warnings.
# hospitals - Tuesday 17 October, 2017
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# hospitals - Tuesday 3 October, 2017
# Not Letting It Go
# Not Letting It Go
The health authority spent nearly €3 million on debt recovery during the period 2011 to 2017.
# hospitals - Tuesday 5 September, 2017
# Infection
# Infection
Simon Harris said hospital staff are now trained to be more “sepsis aware”.
# Next Of Kin
# Next Of Kin
The money was spent over the last three years.
# hospitals - Sunday 3 September, 2017
# Blood Bikes
# Blood Bikes
Blood Bikes East, a volunteer courier service of elite bikers transporting urgent medical supplies, has operated entirely free of charge since its inception in 2012.
# hospitals - Thursday 31 August, 2017
# Counting The Cost
# Counting The Cost
A petition is being delivered to a group which operates hospitals in Dublin, Cavan and Louth today.
# hospitals - Sunday 13 August, 2017
# Waiting Lists
# Waiting Lists
A total of 52,257 child patients were waiting at any length of time for their first appointment at the end of July.
# hospitals - Friday 7 July, 2017
# Common Ground
# Common Ground
The Irish Hospice Foundation has said investing in bereavement services and end-of-life care will benefit society as a whole.
# hospitals - Monday 3 July, 2017
# Record High
# Record High
The INMO said that this was further evidence that our health service “simply cannot cope with the demands”.
# hospitals - Friday 2 June, 2017
# Definitions Of Success
# Definitions Of Success
Nearly half of female doctors delay starting a family for career reasons.
# hospitals - Tuesday 30 May, 2017
# Died By Suicide
# Died By Suicide
Sinn Féin TD Pat Buckley wants the HSE to keep a record of all those who die by suicide in Irish hospitals.
# hospitals - Monday 15 May, 2017
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
Consultants say these doctors do not have the expertise necessary to make the right decisions for patients.
# hospitals - Thursday 4 May, 2017
# RSVP
# RSVP
Minister of State Catherine Byrne said the administrative cost associated with non-attendance is approximately €25 per patient visit.
# hospitals - Wednesday 3 May, 2017
# Record Highs
# Record Highs
There’s been an improvement in Dublin, but things are getting worse in other counties.
# hospitals - Tuesday 2 May, 2017
# HIQA
# HIQA
At one hospital, “patients who were unable to walk did not have access to fresh drinking water”.
# hospitals - Monday 1 May, 2017
# Pricey
# Pricey
Cork University Hospital generated €3.1 million in 2016, while the car park at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin raised €464,000 in the same year.
# Landmark Survey
# Landmark Survey
Patients discharged between now and the end of May will be able to complete the National Patient Experience Survey.
# hospitals - Monday 10 April, 2017
# San Bernardino
# San Bernardino
The shooting has reportedly resulted from a ‘domestic incident’. The remaining students at the school have been evacuated to another nearby school.
# hospitals - Wednesday 22 March, 2017
# Medicine
# Medicine
People over the age of 65 are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of medicine.
# hospitals - Monday 13 March, 2017
# Your Say
# Your Say
There have been calls for the hospitals to be handed over, amid criticism in relation to compensation owed to abuse victims.
# hospitals - Sunday 12 March, 2017
# Freedom To Work
# Freedom To Work
Groups representing medical students, interns and residents oppose the loosening of work-shift caps.
# hospitals - Saturday 25 February, 2017
# Building Blocks
# Building Blocks
It is planned that prefabs would be used in order to deal with overcrowding.
# hospitals - Friday 3 February, 2017
# Patient Cancellations
# Patient Cancellations
In January, 467 surgeries were cancelled at Galway University Hospital alone – most were cancelled by patients.
# hospitals - Thursday 2 February, 2017
# Trolleywatch
# Trolleywatch
The figure of 601 is just short of the high of 612 patients on trolleys at the beginning of January.
# hospitals - Monday 30 January, 2017
# Reality Check
# Reality Check
We also ranked the fifth worst for getting value out of the money we put into our healthcare system.
# hospitals - Saturday 21 January, 2017
# Hospital Overcrowding
# Hospital Overcrowding
What do doctors and nurses want done to tackle hospital overcrowding and record numbers on trolleys? More beds, for starters.
# hospitals - Thursday 19 January, 2017
# Fatal
# Fatal
“There is still a significant amount of flu in our community … this is higher than it has been in a number of years.”
# hospitals - Monday 9 January, 2017
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
Simon Harris welcomed the news, but said more needs to be done.
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