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# Overcrowding

Varadkar defends comments about extra resources making hospitals slow down

The minister said he accepted that overcrowding can also delay patient treatment.

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Feb 8th 2016, 9:35 AM

Voices

Cork house party shows the 'don't take drugs' message just won't cut it

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.

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Jan 22nd 2016, 1:45 PM

# Dublin

One of Dublin city's main hospitals is telling emergency patients to stay away

The Mater Hospital says it’s experiencing “very high numbers”.

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Jan 20th 2016, 1:13 PM

# No Go

Beaumont Hospital is asking people to stay away from its emergency department tonight

Unless they’re really sick, that is.

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Jan 5th 2016, 5:30 PM

# christmas past

WATCH: Santa visits the children of Dublin in 1948

Best day ever.

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Dec 24th 2015, 11:00 AM

Voices

Leo: If there was an overnight fix for the health service I would've implemented it

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.

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Nov 17th 2015, 8:00 AM

# Thatcherite

'What you'd expect from the Tea Party': Leo's radical plan for hospitals is being lashed

Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin are not impressed with the Health Minister’s latest comments.

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Nov 6th 2015, 4:35 PM

# park life

A multi-storey car park at a Galway hospital will result in fewer parking spaces

For staff, anyway.

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Sep 23rd 2015, 7:30 PM

Voices

Consultant turned tap and pregnant woman told, 'That’s the volume of blood that will gush out of you'

Dil Wickremasinghe writes about how she was treated by doctors when she opted for a home birth.

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Sep 1st 2015, 8:00 AM

# Sick

Children with cancer are having their eggs and testes tissue frozen for the future

“That often is the one piece of information that gives them a glimmer of hope”.

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Aug 16th 2015, 2:00 PM

# Complaints

Patients complain of rude doctors, lack of compassion and misdiagnosis

Women, older doctors and doctors who qualified in Ireland are less likely to face serious disciplinary outcomes, according to a new report.

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Jul 13th 2015, 1:22 PM

# Musical Chairs

Dublin's three maternity hospitals are being moved to pastures new

Planning permission for three new sites at major adult teaching hospitals will be submitted in the next 18 months.

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Jun 30th 2015, 3:20 PM

# Abortion

26 terminations carried out in Ireland under new abortion laws

Minister Leo Varadkar revealed the figures today.

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Jun 29th 2015, 11:34 PM

# Overcrowding

Leo wants no more than 90 people on trolleys for more than nine hours by the end of 2015

Hospital waiting lists and overcrowding are among the biggest problems facing the health service.

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Apr 2nd 2015, 11:50 AM

# Yuck

Surprise hospital checks uncover dirty portable toilets and mattresses

HIQA says all hospitals could do more to improve hand hygiene.

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Mar 20th 2015, 9:12 AM

Voices

The furore around fatty, inedible hospital food overshadows a far more serious issue

Disease-related malnutrition remains a major cause of avoidable complications in our hospitals.

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Mar 18th 2015, 7:00 PM

# Beaumont

Family claims elderly man with Parksinson's was "left in a soiled state" in Dublin hospital

Gerry Feeney’s family say he was treated as if he was invisible.

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Feb 26th 2015, 4:30 PM

# Tick tock

76,666: the exact number of people waiting for hospital treatment right now

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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Feb 20th 2015, 6:03 PM

# Waiting Lists

12 month delays for MRI scans 'putting lives at risk'

7,000 people have been waiting for a scan for more than one year.

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Feb 10th 2015, 6:09 PM

# Achoo

The number of people admitted to hospital with flu has more than doubled in a week

The average age of those admitted is 59.

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Feb 7th 2015, 1:55 PM

# another crisis?

Hundreds on trolleys again, as hospitals deal with influx of flu cases

INMO figures show there were 518 people waiting on trolleys in emergency departments and on wards yesterday.

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Feb 4th 2015, 10:00 AM

# HOSPITAL CRISIS

"A poor example": Varadkar heavily criticises Martin over emergency department crisis

The Health Minister said no one wants to sort out the overcrowding crisis more than he does.

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Jan 14th 2015, 9:45 PM

# Emergency

HSE says achieving ambulance response times in rural areas is 'always a difficult task'

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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Jan 13th 2015, 12:05 PM

# Overcrowding

Nurses at Galway University Hospital are going on a work-to-rule

Minister for Health Leo Varadkar said significant progress had been made in tackling the country’s overcrowding issues.

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Jan 12th 2015, 8:00 AM

# Hospitals

Leo's warning: Junior doctor changeover and flu cases could cause more problems

We’re “not out of the woods yet” according to the Health Minister.

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Jan 11th 2015, 7:00 PM

# going to get worse

'I'm sick to death of this problem' - Varadkar speaks out on A&E crisis

The Health Minister said the problem is going to get worse next week.

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Jan 7th 2015, 10:20 PM

# Waiting Times

Irish hospitals aren't the only ones dealing with an overcrowding crisis

It’s a very similar story in England.

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Jan 7th 2015, 12:22 PM

# no beds

Overcrowding crisis: Surgeries cancelled at Beaumont as trolley figures remain high

There were a total of 584 people waiting for available hospital beds as of this morning.

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Jan 7th 2015, 12:08 PM

# Overcrowding

GPs: We can't take on hospital overflow - we're overwhelmed already

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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Jan 7th 2015, 6:30 AM

# Trolleys

Hospital overcrowding: Calls for Ireland to poach nurses from UK and Australia

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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Jan 5th 2015, 10:50 PM

# Health

Varadkar: There was "no attempt to conceal" waiting list numbers

The HSE was accused of having ‘hidden waiting lists’ today.

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Dec 21st 2014, 6:45 PM

# State of the Nation

How will the HSE tackle waiting lists next year?

Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…

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Nov 27th 2014, 9:01 AM

# Maternity

'Never again': New guidelines introduced after Savita's tragic death

An early warning system in maternity hospitals is to be standardised.

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Nov 26th 2014, 7:30 PM

# junior doctor

Here's what Leo Varadkar thinks has changed in health since he 'wore a white coat'

The Health Minister says the system he is now in charge of is different.

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Oct 23rd 2014, 12:32 PM

# midlands regional

'Overcrowded and clinically dangerous': Nurses criticise conditions at Mullingar hospital

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has called on the HSE to immediately recruit more staff at MRHM.

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Sep 29th 2014, 10:42 AM

# patient patients

More than 360,000 people are on hospital waiting lists

The figure increased by 50,000 from January to July.

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Sep 24th 2014, 7:45 AM

# Hospitals

Galway nurses to protest 'severe overcrowding' in Emergency Department

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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Sep 15th 2014, 6:55 PM

# children's health

Children with Spina Bifida are massively under-served in Ireland: study

Children with spina bifida need complex treatment – more than half aren’t getting it.

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Sep 3rd 2014, 7:45 AM

# no vacancies

Staff shortage at Kerry General Hospital now at "unsafe" levels says union

The INMO says a block on hiring is making the problem worse.

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Aug 29th 2014, 10:04 PM