# hospitals - Saturday 25 May, 2013
# Emergency
# Emergency
We have a major emergency plan for serious incidents, so let’s see how it would work.
# hospitals - Thursday 23 May, 2013
# Healthscare
# Healthscare
The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine says emergency wards are already stretched, and it’ll get worse in July…
# hospitals - Thursday 16 May, 2013
# Digital Healthcare
# Digital Healthcare
Tablet devices for nurses and electronic medical records – just some of the ideas showcased at a digital healthcare gathering in Dublin yesterday.
# hospitals - Tuesday 14 May, 2013
# Need To Know
# Need To Know
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today…
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
Hospitals are now going to be divided into one of six groups around the country.
# hospitals - Monday 13 May, 2013
# Health Insurance
# Health Insurance
Insurance companies are worried about the decline in young people enrolling as the costs of insuring those over 60 are considerably higher.
# hospitals - Saturday 11 May, 2013
# INMO
# INMO
Liam Doran says he doesn’t pay attention to newspaper commentary suggesting he regularly threatens industrial action.
# hospitals - Friday 10 May, 2013
# INMO
# INMO
The INMO is to present the health minister with the findings of its trolley and ward watch initiatives, which show an increase in the amount of people on trolleys.
# hospitals - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
The INMO is to hold its annual conference tomorrow, and its general secretary said he expects “lively debate” at the event.
# hospitals - Friday 26 April, 2013
# Health
# Health
HIQA inspectors identified a number of specific issues that present “immediate serious risks” to patients.
# Biting
# Biting
The Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons has taken the opportunity of the publicity surrounding biting this week to warn of the consequences of serious biting.
# hospitals - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
# Ageing
# Ageing
Older people are more likely to spend more nights in hospital and to visit the GP, a TILDA study found.
# hospitals - Monday 4 March, 2013
# Waiting Lists
# Waiting Lists
Department of Health figures show people still waiting over a year for inpatient procedures – well past an original deadline.
# hospitals - Monday 18 February, 2013
# Health
# Health
The score is the first of the National Clinical Guidelines, and sets out how to recognise and respond to patients whose condition is deteriorating.
# hospitals - Friday 8 February, 2013
# Support
# Support
The Irish Cancer Society is hoping to expand its Cancer Information Service which helps patients access the information they need to make decisions about treatment.
# hospitals - Tuesday 29 January, 2013
# Leaders' Questions
# Leaders' Questions
Sinn Féin has demanded an explanation as to why emergency wards in Kilkenny and Wexford had upgrades ‘fast-tracked’.
# hospitals - Sunday 27 January, 2013
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
The opposition lashes out as RTÉ’s This Week obtains documents showing upgrades in Kilkenny and Wexford were fast-tracked.
# hospitals - Friday 25 January, 2013
# hospitals - Thursday 10 January, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
The Government is desperate to avoid “abortion on demand”, writes Sarah McCarthy – but in reality, women should be trusted to make the choice.
# hospitals - Friday 4 January, 2013
# Vomiting Bug
# Vomiting Bug
Restrictions are still place in Limerick and Cavan though the number of reported cases have significantly declined.
# hospitals - Friday 14 December, 2012
# Emergency
# Emergency
Independent TD Denis Naughten said today that there is a need for the establishment of a national helicopter emergency service.
# hospitals - Friday 30 November, 2012
# HSE
# HSE
The outstanding money is a result of private patients being treated in public beds.
# hospitals - Thursday 29 November, 2012
# Health
# Health
The organisation said that nursing staffing levels in Ireland are at “critically low levels” compared to the UK.
# hospitals - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
# Blood Bikers
# Blood Bikers
The bikers work as an emergency rider voluntary service that transports blood, patient records and other urgently-needed items between hospitals in the Western region.
# hospitals - Wednesday 14 November, 2012
# Hygiene
# Hygiene
An audit by the HSE shows the Mater private hospital in Dublin had the highest rate of compliance with hand hygiene.
# hospitals - Tuesday 13 November, 2012
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
The ESRI report also showed that 46 per cent of the 25 per cent of women who delivered a baby on a public basis had an elective Caesarean section.
# hospitals - Friday 26 October, 2012
# Norovirus
# Norovirus
An outbreak of the winter vomiting bug means the hospital has introduced visiting restrictions, including to emergency wards.
# hospitals - Friday 19 October, 2012
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
Dr James Reilly, Minister for Health, said that hospitals have achieved success in reaching a target list for inpatient and day case treatments.
# hospitals - Monday 17 September, 2012
# New Deal
# New Deal
Consultants may also have to work weekends under the terms of the new deal.
# hospitals - Monday 10 September, 2012
# Japan
# Japan
A Tokyo hospital is checking the qualifications of all staff after it emerged an unqualified bluffer had dealt with thousands of patients.
# hospitals - Tuesday 28 August, 2012
# hospitals - Wednesday 22 August, 2012
# Cuts
# Cuts
The HSE has produced a report which proposes getting rid of all agency staff in three hospitals – but the plan has drawn harsh criticism.
# hospitals - Thursday 16 August, 2012
# Ambulance
# Ambulance
A Dublin TD has said that reduction in ambulance services in Dublin could put lives at risk.
# hospitals - Tuesday 14 August, 2012
# Health Crisis
# Health Crisis
Sports Minister said his comments at Team Ireland homecoming about money spent on sport being “better than putting it into hospitals” was meant to highlight importance of exercise in keeping nation healthy.
# hospitals - Tuesday 24 July, 2012
# Health
# Health
New figures show that there were almost 10,000 fewer people on trolleys so far this year.
# hospitals - Friday 22 June, 2012
# hospitals - Thursday 7 June, 2012
# Performance
# Performance
The latest HSE performance report evaluates hospitals’ discharge and admission rates, as well as response times and lengths of stay.
# Waiting Lists
# Waiting Lists
A total of 806 people have been waiting more than four years for consultant appointments…
# hospitals - Monday 28 May, 2012
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
If Tallaght can change procedures within three days to cut waiting times, the IAEM says, so can other hospitals.
# hospitals - Thursday 17 May, 2012
# HIQA
# HIQA
Health watchdog HIQA found that over 80 per cent of patients in the emergency department were kept on a corridor and had to wait around 13 hours for a bed.
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