# hospitals - Monday 26 August, 2013
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
Doctors and the HSE met today to talk about contingency plans if doctors do strike from next month – but the doctors aren’t happy.
# hospitals - Tuesday 20 August, 2013
# Letterkenny General Hospital
# Letterkenny General Hospital
The hospital says that non-emergency patients should still seek the advice of their GPs as the emergency department continues to reopen.
# hospitals - Thursday 1 August, 2013
# Nurses
# Nurses
The HSE has rejected claims that it will ask existing nurses to apply for their jobs through a graduate programme that pays 85 per cent of the standard wage.
# hospitals - Tuesday 23 July, 2013
# MaternityIre
# MaternityIre
Recent events has women opening up about their negative experiences of Irish maternity hospitals.
# hospitals - Tuesday 16 July, 2013
# Minimum Wage
# Minimum Wage
The INMO said that interns are being asked to increase their hours while only being paid 50 per cent of the staff rate of pay.
# hospitals - Monday 15 July, 2013
# Doctors
# Doctors
The Irish Medical Organisation says that non-consultant hospital doctors are “routinely forced” to work “dangerously long” hours in Ireland.
# hospitals - Friday 5 July, 2013
# Superbugs
# Superbugs
Pneumonia and other respiratory infections accounted for 23 per cent of cases across Europe.
# hospitals - Monday 1 July, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
Dangerously long working hours, understaffing, and lower pay than you might think – these are the things the HSE doesn’t want you to know about how hospital doctors are treated, a junior doctor writes.
# hospitals - Thursday 13 June, 2013
# Abortion
# Abortion
We bring you through the main changes to the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill, published early this morning.
# 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
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