Budget to extend free GP care to 100,000 more peopleHealth and housing to be main focus with mild income tax cuts for middle earnersTue Oct 09 2018 - 08:55
Main revenue-raising measure in budget will be end of special 9% hospitality VAT rateAll social welfare payments will increase by €5 from next year, with the Christmas bonus restored to a double paymentMon Oct 08 2018 - 22:02
Simon Harris rejects claim new maternity hospital project may collapseMinister says he hopes to ‘green light’ the project by the end of this yearSun Oct 07 2018 - 17:14
Children’s hospital ‘will fail’ if ‘right people’ are not recruited, consultant saysMinister says he accepts the two-tier pay system for consultants is unfair and has to be addressedSat Oct 06 2018 - 15:42
Bogus self-employment costs State €300m per year, union saysGovernment to stamp out practice ‘that remains widespread in a growing construction industry’Sat Oct 06 2018 - 10:48
Warning that patients may go blind due to delays in eye care provisionConsultants’ concerns about impact of large waiting lists aired at conferenceSat Oct 06 2018 - 10:08
Government talks with GPs to re-convene next weekIMO seeks time limit on talks about new services and working arrangementsThu Oct 04 2018 - 19:46
Siptu to seek pay rises for healthcare assistants, conference toldJob reviews could lead to healthcare assistants receiving pay boost of up to € 4,000Thu Oct 04 2018 - 17:54
‘Good chance’ McGrath will support early renegotiation of public payMinister of State addresses Siptu health conference on his support for public sector health workersThu Oct 04 2018 - 15:39
Section 39 workers to get €1,000 in April in pay restoration dealHealthcare assistants largest group to benefit from new pay dealThu Oct 04 2018 - 01:33
New integrated bodies will run hospital and community services, says HarrisMinister says 600 additional hospital beds will be delivered within three yearsWed Oct 03 2018 - 13:23
Worker at HSE-funded agency’s €16,700 for time in lieuPressing matters identified in KARE organisation which helps the intellectually disabledWed Oct 03 2018 - 01:00
Deal agreed on pay restoration for health and social services staffMore than 7,000 workers in ‘section 39 bodies’ to benefitTue Oct 02 2018 - 22:04
Union warns of bus strikes over potential privatisationNational Transport Authority proposes 10% of Bus Éireann routes should be put to marketTue Oct 02 2018 - 15:13
Defence Force bodies may be permitted to affiliate to IctuMinister expected to rule out granting military personnel the right to strikeTue Oct 02 2018 - 00:09
Nearly 8,000 patients were on trolleys in hospitals last monthINMO says some hospitals experienced record overcrowding levels for a SeptemberMon Oct 01 2018 - 12:24
Dublin Bus drivers to get €1.4m over privatisation of routesRoutes being taken over by Go-Ahead will lead to base and roster changes for some staffMon Oct 01 2018 - 03:00
Donohoe set to cut property tax rate after the budgetIndependent Alliance pressure to unveil measure in budget resisted by MinisterMon Oct 01 2018 - 02:00
Serious weaknesses in system used by HSE to monitor private practice in hospitalsHSE generated over €300m in income from private patients in public hospitals last yearFri Sept 28 2018 - 15:02
State has paid out more than €1.5bn in Hep C blood contamination scandalHepatitic C treatment costs range from €23,000 to €92,000, report saysFri Sept 28 2018 - 14:12
Review urges new permit system for overseas seasonal workersNearly 30% rise in applications for employment permits this yearFri Sept 28 2018 - 06:00
Thousands of additional hospital beds needed, doctors warnIn pre-budget submissions, IMO and IHCA urge Government to invest for years aheadThu Sept 27 2018 - 20:51
TUI to ballot members on Government pay deal proposalsTeachers’ union declines to make recommendation on plan to tackle two-tier systemWed Sept 26 2018 - 20:52
Propect of strikes increases as unions urge nurses to reject pay proposalsINMO claims Government measures were ‘designed to be divisive’Wed Sept 26 2018 - 17:58
GPs demand freedom to opt out of plans for abortion servicesGroup of medics attend meeting chaired by anti-abortion TD Mattie McGrath to voice concernsWed Sept 26 2018 - 13:36
Allowance increase could benefit 18,000 nurses, says GovernmentPay Commission finding that nurse retention is not an issue is ‘inaccurate’, says nurses’ groupWed Sept 26 2018 - 00:24
Government hopes ending two-tier pay system will prevent strikesDonohoe warns benefits will apply only to groups that stay within public service accordMon Sept 24 2018 - 21:06
Government proposes deal to end two-tier public pay systemInitiative could be worth more than €3,000 a year for 35,000 staff recruited since 2011Mon Sept 24 2018 - 19:55
Pay to be restored for up to 60,000 public sector workersTeachers, nurses, gardaí hired since 2011 to benefit by average of about €3,300Sat Sept 22 2018 - 00:12
Call to end two-tier pay structure for consultantsFuture of public hospital care at stake unless Government acts, says specialists’ associationFri Sept 21 2018 - 15:33
Consultants warn industrial action over two-tier pay system more likelyDoctors say Government tabled no concrete proposals at talks on WednesdayWed Sept 19 2018 - 20:33
Ambulance staff to stage industrial action next monthDispute centres on union representation rights and deduction of subscriptionsWed Sept 19 2018 - 17:59
‘Section 39’ health and social care staff set to get 1% pay risePay rise in January would be backdated to October under proposals put to unionsTue Sept 18 2018 - 19:55
New chairman of HSE appointed by GovernmentBritish Council chief Ciarán Devane will head up new board overseeing health executive’s operationsTue Sept 18 2018 - 13:38
Bus Éireann staff could strike over pay rise row, union warnsNBRU general secretary says employees have not had wage increase in more than 10 yearsTue Sept 18 2018 - 12:54
Health agencies face potential insolvency over pensionsVoluntary providers could receive court orders if they continue with current practicesMon Sept 17 2018 - 01:00
Number on trolleys could pass 1,000 this winter, IMO event toldIMO president Dr Peadar Gilligan tells conference health service is not ‘a black hole’Sun Sept 16 2018 - 18:40
‘Tact’ lacking in approach of some doctors to CervicalCheck womenPresident of IMO says right ‘level of diplomacy was not shown in all of the cases’Sat Sept 15 2018 - 12:07
Soaring health deficit causing alarm within GovernmentDay-to-day HSE spending and insurance firm practices main culprits behind overspendSat Sept 15 2018 - 03:00
Harris sought nearly €1bn in health capital funding to be brought forwardMinister warned Paschal Donohoe that Government capital plan was “unbalanced”Sat Sept 15 2018 - 03:00
Cancer, renal and other healthcare investments to be delayedHealth service facing €110m funding gap as overall deficit forecast to reach €1.1bnSat Sept 15 2018 - 03:00
Planned strike by 5,000 health and social care staff deferredSiptu decided to call off planned stoppage after intervention of Simon HarrisFri Sept 14 2018 - 18:33
‘Degree of misogyny’ in some areas of health sector, says TaoiseachVaradkar says attitude of medical staff ‘knowing best’ goes beyond CervicalCheckFri Sept 14 2018 - 01:00
Gardaí warn of industrial unrest unless they get trade union rightsGarda body says planned new industrial relations legislation has inherent defectsThu Sept 13 2018 - 21:56
Scally scathing of ‘whole-system failure’ in cervical screeningSystem ‘doomed to fail’ due to ‘demonstrable’ governance deficit, report saysThu Sept 13 2018 - 06:00
Eventual disclosure of cervical audit ‘caused hurt and anger’Dr Gabriel Scally recommends statutory duty of candour on individuals and organisationsWed Sept 12 2018 - 20:50
Medical Council guidelines not centred on patients – Scally reportCouncil urged to strengthen guide to put practice of open disclosure beyond doubtWed Sept 12 2018 - 20:27
Cervical screening system was doomed to fail at some point, Scally report findsReview of Cervical check system says there was a whole system failureWed Sept 12 2018 - 13:21
Irish Rail acknowledges Dart changes have led to problemsShorter carriages on more frequent services blamed for lack of capacity, overcrowdingTue Sept 11 2018 - 19:56
Consultants may strike over two-tier pay system, IMO warnsDoctors claim pay differential could rise to €50,000 per year for those hired after 2012Tue Sept 11 2018 - 13:10
