# hospitals - Wednesday 4 January, 2017
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
He wants private hospital facilities to be used to help ease the pressure on emergency departments in public hospitals.
# Perfect Storm
# Perfect Storm
Siptu members said today that delays of between one and three hours have been observed across the country.
# Inside Irish Hospitals
# Inside Irish Hospitals
Over 600 people are still on trolleys in Ireland’s hospitals today, the second highest figure ever recorded.
# hospitals - Tuesday 3 January, 2017
# Health
# Health
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) says it sets a new record.
# hospitals - Monday 2 January, 2017
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
There was a huge surge in demand over the Christmas period.
# hospitals - Thursday 29 December, 2016
# Homeward Bound
# Homeward Bound
The HSE is hosting three open recruitment days for nurses and midwives in Dublin over the Christmas period.
# hospitals - Friday 2 December, 2016
# Trolley Watch
# Trolley Watch
While the numbers on trolleys is down 1% this year, figures for November were described as “particularly alarming”.
# hospitals - Sunday 6 November, 2016
# Waiting Times
# Waiting Times
“The patient doesn’t care who pays a salary or what title you have. People on the frontline need to be integrated in the decision making process.”
# hospitals - Wednesday 19 October, 2016
# Flu Epidemic
# Flu Epidemic
Simon Harris is considering the move, but said it wouldn’t be straightforward.
# hospitals - Tuesday 18 October, 2016
# AB Positive
# AB Positive
Blood donations in Ireland have fallen 21% in five years, and the IBTS is down to three days’ supply.
# hospitals - Friday 7 October, 2016
# New Global Study
# New Global Study
The most up-to-date analysis on the state of the world’s health has been published which will help identify national health challenges and priorities for intervention.
# hospitals - Wednesday 5 October, 2016
# Besieged
# Besieged
One of them twice.
# hospitals - Saturday 17 September, 2016
# The Long Wait
# The Long Wait
Two mothers talk to us about their fight to get treatment for their sons.
# hospitals - Tuesday 6 September, 2016
# Slow Recovery
# Slow Recovery
There’s a marked difference between Dublin and the rest of the country.
# hospitals - Saturday 3 September, 2016
# Hospital Food
# Hospital Food
Hiqa began a monitoring programme last year to look at nutrition and hydration care of patients in Irish hospitals.
# hospitals - Sunday 24 July, 2016
# Kate Granger
# Kate Granger
Dr Kate Granger had been battling cancer since 2011.
# hospitals - Thursday 7 July, 2016
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
There are more and more people on waiting lists – but are things as bad as Fianna Fáil claim?
# hospitals - Friday 27 May, 2016
# On The Menu
# On The Menu
A Hiqa study has found some deficiencies in patient choices.
# hospitals - Tuesday 26 April, 2016
# Column
# Column
Emer McGinnity writes about a recent stay in hospital, and the people she met there.
# hospitals - Tuesday 15 March, 2016
# Drop In Donations
# Drop In Donations
Additional clinics have been set up to receive donations.
# hospitals - Saturday 27 February, 2016
# Aggressive Patients
# Aggressive Patients
The recommendation was made only for extreme cases.
# hospitals - Wednesday 10 February, 2016
# Roles And Responsibilities
# Roles And Responsibilities
Four key tasks are to be carried out in future by nurses rather than junior doctors.
# hospitals - Monday 8 February, 2016
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
The minister said he accepted that overcrowding can also delay patient treatment.
# hospitals - Friday 22 January, 2016
# Opinion
# Opinion
Six young people were hospitalised after a house party in the south of Cork. The issue can no longer be ignored, writes Graham de Barra.
# hospitals - Wednesday 20 January, 2016
# Mater
# Mater
The Mater Hospital says it’s experiencing “very high numbers”.
# hospitals - Tuesday 5 January, 2016
# No Go
# No Go
Unless they’re really sick, that is.
# hospitals - Thursday 24 December, 2015
# hospitals - Tuesday 17 November, 2015
# Opinion
# Opinion
I’ve been in this job for 18 months and I can say with absolute certainty that if there was an overnight fix, I would have implemented it on day one, Leo Varadkar writes.
# hospitals - Friday 6 November, 2015
# Thatcherite
# Thatcherite
Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin are not impressed with the Health Minister’s latest comments.
# hospitals - Wednesday 23 September, 2015
# hospitals - Tuesday 1 September, 2015
# Opinion
# Opinion
Dil Wickremasinghe writes about how she was treated by doctors when she opted for a home birth.
# hospitals - Sunday 16 August, 2015
# Sick
# Sick
“That often is the one piece of information that gives them a glimmer of hope”.
# hospitals - Monday 13 July, 2015
# Complaints
# Complaints
Women, older doctors and doctors who qualified in Ireland are less likely to face serious disciplinary outcomes, according to a new report.
# hospitals - Tuesday 30 June, 2015
# Musical Chairs
# Musical Chairs
Planning permission for three new sites at major adult teaching hospitals will be submitted in the next 18 months.
# hospitals - Monday 29 June, 2015
# Abortion
# Abortion
Minister Leo Varadkar revealed the figures today.
# hospitals - Thursday 2 April, 2015
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
Hospital waiting lists and overcrowding are among the biggest problems facing the health service.
# hospitals - Friday 20 March, 2015
# Yuck
# Yuck
HIQA says all hospitals could do more to improve hand hygiene.
# hospitals - Wednesday 18 March, 2015
# Opinion
# Opinion
Disease-related malnutrition remains a major cause of avoidable complications in our hospitals.
# hospitals - Thursday 26 February, 2015
# Beaumont
# Beaumont
Gerry Feeney’s family say he was treated as if he was invisible.
# hospitals - Friday 20 February, 2015
# Tick Tock
# Tick Tock
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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