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# top-ups

Gilmore warns health bodies could have funding cut if they don't comply with pay policy

The Tánaiste has said that funding could be cut for agencies that do not comply with public sector pay structures.

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Dec 1st 2013, 1:53 PM

# Drink

Here's how many people were treated for alcohol dependence in Irish hospitals

New figures have also revealed a big drop in the number of people being treated for alcohol-related liver disease in recent years following a massive increase in the boom years.

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Nov 22nd 2013, 12:40 PM

# Executive Pay

"Don't punish sick kids" - charity warns hospitals still need help, despite top-up furore

There is a serious risk of donors not supporting fundraising campaigns in protest over the top-up payments to hospital executives, a charity has warned.

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Nov 21st 2013, 2:01 PM

# Self Harm

Children hospitalised after self-harming is on the increase

The HSE has said that 960 children aged 10 to 17 years presented to hospital last year with self-harm injuries.

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Nov 20th 2013, 9:20 PM

# Executive Pay

'Ministers knew' about top-up payments for senior health staff

“There’s only one thing that should happen now. Come next week, these payments must cease”.

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Nov 20th 2013, 8:31 AM

# Executive Pay

'This has got to stop': Reilly concerned about pay top-ups for some health chiefs

Remuneration for some hospital chiefs has caused controversy in the last 24 hours.

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Nov 19th 2013, 5:02 PM

# birth stats

Ireland has highest birth rate of all 27 EU nations

New figures from the ESRI also show there were 1,217 sets of twins born last year, and 33 sets of triplets.

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Nov 19th 2013, 6:30 AM

# Smoking

Government to consider free nicotine patches for pregnant women

Minister of State Alex White told the Dáil yesterday that it is estimated that between 18 per cent and 21 per cent of Irish women smoke during pregnancy.

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Nov 15th 2013, 10:31 AM

# Winter Vomiting Bug

Winter vomiting bug leads to visitor restrictions at Dublin hospitals

The restrictions have been put in place at Beaumont Hospital and St Joseph’s Hospital Raheny to contain an outbreak of the Nonovirus.

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Nov 8th 2013, 6:19 PM

# Savita Halappanavar

Hospital group will ‘review actions of all staff’ in care of Savita

The West/North West Hospital Group said that, if appropriate, staff will be referred to the proper authorities but that “in many instances there will be no case to answer.”

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Oct 18th 2013, 11:01 PM

# Dispute

IMO recommends junior doctors say 'yes' to LRC proposals

After negotiations at the Labour Relations Commission, the IMO said this evening that there had been proposals put forward by the HSE.

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Oct 16th 2013, 9:51 PM

# HEALTH BILL

Hole in Health budget less than €200 million, says Reilly

The Minister for Health James Reilly said the health budget does not have a deficit of €500 million as reported widely today.

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Oct 13th 2013, 2:56 PM

# Hospitals

Consultants' association: HSE being driven by Troika demands, not patient welfare

The president of the IHCA also said that the HSE’s “unsympathetic” traits have led to action like the junior doctors’ strike which has created tensions among the ranks.

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Oct 12th 2013, 5:43 PM

# Junior Doctors

Taoiseach tells junior docs and HSE: Go back into the LRC and sort this out

Kenny was asked about the junior doctors’ strike by Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and the independent TD Stephen Donnelly at Leaders’ Questions today.

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Oct 8th 2013, 3:58 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Do you support the striking doctors?

Pickets are being placed at hospitals around the country as the long-mooted strike by junior doctors begins. Do you agree with their course of action?

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Oct 8th 2013, 9:12 AM

# Hospitals

3,000 Junior Doctors gear up for tomorrow’s industrial action

The day of action is expected to formally begin tomorrow morning in 1 hospitals at 7am, continuing until midnight.

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Oct 7th 2013, 10:49 PM

# confidential

Eleven breaches of patient data at HSE hospitals in six months

The HSE said breaches could have included the placing of a referral letter in the wrong chart or the a document sent to a person with the same name as a patient.

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Oct 7th 2013, 10:48 PM

Voices

Column: I'm no different to a human trafficker

I successfully lured a beautiful Eastern European blonde to Ireland to work. I, of course, had promised the world: happiness, love, professional dignity. She fell for it.

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Oct 4th 2013, 7:15 AM

# Strike

IMO: There will be disruption during next week's doctors' strike

The junior doctors’ day of action had been delayed but the IMO said the strike will take place next Tuesday, 8 October.

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Oct 1st 2013, 8:38 AM

# Junior Doctors

Doctors' strike now suspended indefinitely as IMO seeks clarification

The strike was postponed for a week last Friday, but no date for the action is now being given by the doctors’ union.

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Sep 24th 2013, 11:23 AM

# wash your hands

Minister suggests 'Florence Nightingale campaign' to tackle hand hygiene in hospitals

Kathleen Lynch said it was “incredible” that hospital staff had to be told to wash their hands.

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Sep 18th 2013, 4:41 PM

# 24 no more

No breakthrough in talks between HSE and junior doctors

The NCHDs still plan to go on strike in two weeks time.

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Sep 11th 2013, 10:46 PM

# Health

"Radical action" needed to tackle lack of handwashing in hospitals

However, head of transplantation at Beaumont Hospital, David Hickey, said that sanctions were “stupid”.

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Sep 5th 2013, 10:11 AM

# Talks

IMO to meet with HSE on how to protect patients during strike

Junior doctors voted yesterday in favour of industrial action in protest against their long hours.

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Sep 4th 2013, 8:04 AM

# News Fix

Here’s What Happened Today: Tuesday

Everyone’s talking about the government asking Facebook for users’ information and intervention in Syria.

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Aug 27th 2013, 11:00 PM

# Hospitals

Doctors' strike could lead to "chaos"

The result of a ballot of doctors is expected on 2 September.

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Aug 27th 2013, 9:00 AM

# Hospitals

"Be prepared" - Doctors get ready to go on strike

Doctors and the HSE met today to talk about contingency plans if doctors do strike from next month – but the doctors aren’t happy.

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Aug 26th 2013, 4:49 PM

# Letterkenny General Hospital

Letterkenny General Hospital to open to walk-in patients today

The hospital says that non-emergency patients should still seek the advice of their GPs as the emergency department continues to reopen.

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Aug 20th 2013, 7:50 AM

# Nurses

Nurses unions say HSE is "bullying" staff into accepting 15 per cent pay cut

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.

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Aug 1st 2013, 9:18 AM

# MaternityIre

Ireland’s women share their stories of pregnancy, birth and miscarriage

Recent events has women opening up about their negative experiences of Irish maternity hospitals.

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Jul 23rd 2013, 10:05 PM

# Minimum Wage

Nurses and midwives: The HSE is breaking minimum wage law

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.

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Jul 16th 2013, 10:04 PM

# Doctors

Doctors to be balloted on industrial action over "dangerous" working hours

The Irish Medical Organisation says that non-consultant hospital doctors are “routinely forced” to work “dangerously long” hours in Ireland.

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Jul 15th 2013, 12:06 PM

# Superbugs

Over 20,000 Irish people contracted an infection in Irish hospitals

Pneumonia and other respiratory infections accounted for 23 per cent of cases across Europe.

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Jul 5th 2013, 10:47 AM

Voices

Column: A campaign of misinformation has turned the public against doctors

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.

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Jul 1st 2013, 7:30 PM