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# Work to Rule

Industrial action at Beaumont as nurses slam overcrowding

Nurses have started a work to rule because of overcrowding at the Dublin hospital.

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Aug 4th 2011, 6:45 PM

# Tallaght Hospital

Medical data of Tallaght patients may have been breached

Medical records were given to a private firm to be transcribed and typed up.

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Jul 23rd 2011, 5:28 PM

# ballot

Naas nurses to ballot on industrial action

Nurses in Naas General Hospital say the conditions are “unsafe” and they are “exasperated” with the situation.

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Jul 8th 2011, 3:14 PM

# Patients

Protest at Tallaght hospital in solidarity with staff

Demonstrators say the facility is seriously under resourced. Meanwhile a protest about Roscommon County Hospital is planned for Leinster House for Wednesday.

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Jul 2nd 2011, 6:42 PM

# Funds

New ICU beds at Crumlin, but is the hospital in crisis?

The board of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital says that the facility will run out of money by the end of the year.

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Jun 27th 2011, 5:14 PM

# Patient Care

Tallaght A&E to undergo safety probe

The Health Information and Quality Authority will carry out a statutory investigation into the care given to acute patients.

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Jun 25th 2011, 11:19 AM

# in-feck-tious

Medical emergency! There's a Father Jack on ward three

Doctors are naming troublesome patients after foul-mouthed Fr Jack Hackett, a list of hospital slang reveals.

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Jun 16th 2011, 2:57 PM

# doctor shortage

Concerns raised over shortage of junior hospital doctors

The Irish Association of Emergency Medicine has said that shortages may lead to “potential avoidable harm” to patients.

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Jun 14th 2011, 3:03 PM

# Health

GPs warn of major problems in changes to prescribing psychiatric drugs

Up to 48 hour delays predicted for greater Dublin area patients under the new scheme, but the HSE says it’s already in place in the rest of the country.

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Apr 8th 2011, 2:53 PM