HSE and Government clash over €15bn spending planDepartment of Health criticised the health body’s ‘negativity’ over the strategyMon Feb 05 2018 - 01:00
GPs will seek new State contract for abortion servicesIMO says family doctors will want provision to opt out on conscience groundsMon Feb 05 2018 - 01:00
Questions must be asked about HSE financial plans, says Fianna FáilBilly Kelleher says Varadkar and Harris using ‘slights of hand’ to hide HSE funding gapsFri Feb 02 2018 - 18:53
Simon Harris criticises HSE chief over ‘poor budgeting’Minister says health authority’s plan for the year must be based on designated fundingFri Feb 02 2018 - 00:00
Nurses say January was worst ever month for hospital overcrowdingINMO says more than 12,000 patients were on trolleys awaiting a hospital bed last monthThu Feb 01 2018 - 21:01
Nothing to fear from new trauma care reform proposals, says HarrisMinisters objecting to new plan to centralise hospital trauma servicesThu Feb 01 2018 - 12:35
Rural ministers oppose Harris's €57m plan to reform trauma careCreation of trauma networks in €57m reform criticised by Naughten and RingThu Feb 01 2018 - 01:00
Ministers say trauma reforms are too Dublin-centricDenis Naughten says plan should be put on hold pending air ambulance improvementsThu Feb 01 2018 - 01:00
Taoiseach says efforts under way to resolve Section 39 pay rowDepartment criticised for not attending committee hearing on health workers’ pay restorationWed Jan 31 2018 - 10:25
Siptu says planned strike in health and social care sector to go aheadHSE brings forward review of pay policy in voluntary agenciesTue Jan 30 2018 - 21:44
Nurses say 644 patients on trolleys, wards awaiting admission to a hospital bedThere are 14 children on trolleys, says INMOTue Jan 30 2018 - 11:08
Thousands of health and social care workers to go on strikeIndustrial action over pay to begin at a host of State-funded bodies on February 14thMon Jan 29 2018 - 13:47
Status critical: what Ireland’s health service thinks of itselfHSE shines light on itself in internal assessment for GovernmentMon Jan 22 2018 - 07:27
HSE worried cash will run out despite €600m increaseDirector-general Tony O’Brien had doubts that value savings of €346m could be madeMon Jan 22 2018 - 06:13
HSE warns of potential €881m funding crisis in 2018Simon Harris told of doubts about realising targets for health budget savingsMon Jan 22 2018 - 02:16
HSE has ‘no capacity’ to deal with nuclear or biological incidentGovernment warned accident or terrorist attack could cause ‘mass casualties’Mon Jan 22 2018 - 01:16
Staff in State-funded bodies ‘on verge of success in pay campaign’ - SiptuOpposition back calls for pay restoration for workers in Section 39 organisationsThu Jan 18 2018 - 09:00
New union vows to tackle 'bogus' self-employment in building industryConnect union launches with 45,000 members from construction and electrical sectorsWed Jan 17 2018 - 21:34
Trolley crisis: 13 children among 558 people waiting for a hospital bedNurses say 53 people deemed by doctors to need admission on trolleys or wards in CUHWed Jan 17 2018 - 11:19
Government puts pay rises for senior gardaí on holdAssociations did not sign up to new public pay deal by deadline of January 1stMon Jan 15 2018 - 22:00
Some hospitals may lose emergency services as part of reformsNew strategy for Dublin Midlands Hospital Group likely to raise concerns among campaigners for Portlaoise HospitalMon Jan 15 2018 - 18:51
New online system for applying for medical cards launchedApplicants can submit all supporting documents digitallyMon Jan 15 2018 - 05:00
Garda told to get overtime spending ‘back under control’Department of Public Expenditure believes overspend reached €1m per week at end 2017Mon Jan 15 2018 - 01:00
Review of Portlaoise baby deaths complete, says HSEInvestigation into infant fatalities at Portlaoise hospital was announced in 2015Sun Jan 14 2018 - 21:15
Ballydoyle fails to secure exemption on working hours for stable staffYard of top trainer Aidan O’Brien claimed grooms and riders were engaged in agricultural activitiesFri Jan 12 2018 - 20:22
Over 500,000 waiting for hospital out-patient appointmentWaiting list figures rising as Minister for Health criticised for ‘failing’ to deal with crisisFri Jan 12 2018 - 18:23
Strike threat grows at Irish Rail in row over mentoringRail operator to make training new drivers compulsory in return for pay riseFri Jan 12 2018 - 17:23
Leading GP questions HSE assertions that flu levels may peak in coming daysNumbers of patients on hospital trolleys eases back to 473, say nursesFri Jan 12 2018 - 10:44
Recruitment for head of Sláintecare underwayRole likely to involve salary package between €147,000 and €171,000Fri Jan 12 2018 - 05:00
Extra 2,500 hospital beds could cost €1m each, HSE warnsBody says new building would be needed to absorb the necessary additional capacityThu Jan 11 2018 - 01:00
More industrial action could follow train drivers’ vote to reject pay dealOpposition linked to unhappiness over €500 voucher for Dunnes StoresWed Jan 10 2018 - 16:55
Current hospital crisis will seem like picnic if more beds not provided in future - HSE551 people currently on trolleys waiting for admission to hospital bed, says INMOWed Jan 10 2018 - 11:07
HSE says current prevalence of two strains of flu is unusualNumber of people on trolleys increases to 575 on TuesdayTue Jan 09 2018 - 18:44
Number on trolleys in hospitals increases again to 575Nurses say 46 patients waiting for a bed at Cork University HospitalTue Jan 09 2018 - 11:32
Will hospital beds report go same way as previous two?The main recommendations of two previous reports were never implemented in fullMon Jan 08 2018 - 01:00
Pharmacists seek to treat minor ailments without GP’s prescriptionProposal comes as doctors object to plan to stop paying overtime to hospital internsMon Jan 08 2018 - 00:00
Up to 9,000 additional hospital beds needed, review findsCapacity study says up to 2,500 additional beds required if reformed health system implementedSat Jan 06 2018 - 03:00
Nurses say 2,400 patients on hospital trolleys over recent daysDoctors accuse Taoiseach of ‘shocking ignorance’ about the health serviceFri Jan 05 2018 - 18:54
Varadkar ‘frustrated’ hospital services not improvingExtra beds, homecare, staff and money made little difference says TaoiseachFri Jan 05 2018 - 01:00
Children should not go back to school if they have flu symptoms592 people on trolleys as HSE confirms fewer than 10 deaths from flu this winter seasonThu Jan 04 2018 - 22:04
Trolley crisis: Record numbers awaiting hospital bedMinister for Health Simon Harris says he will back HSE in tackling the overcrowding crisisThu Jan 04 2018 - 01:00
Measures to resolve trolley crisis will not be cheapDepartment of Health estimates each additional bed will cost €325,000Thu Jan 04 2018 - 01:00
Row over €500 staff voucher may trigger new rail disputeIrish Rail drivers will reject pay offer for past productivity, according to unionsThu Jan 04 2018 - 01:00
Trolley crisis: Record 677 people awaiting a hospital bed, nurses sayINMO says staff face ‘intolerable’ conditions and patients in ‘inhumane’ situationsWed Jan 03 2018 - 10:23
Irish Rail chairman criticises fishing event sponsorship as ‘own goal’Frank Allen would prefer not to defend sum spent due to firm’s stated lack of resourcesTue Jan 02 2018 - 16:30
Nearly 100,000 patients were put on trolleys in 2017, say nursesINMO warns of potential post-Christmas surge of patients in emergency departmentsTue Jan 02 2018 - 07:00
Harris adamant there are too few beds in the Irish health systemMinister says it is ‘silly’ to say there are not recruitment difficulties in our health serviceSat Dec 30 2017 - 01:00
Thousands more hospital beds will be needed, says HarrisMinister rejects ‘unrealistic’ criticism of delays in implementing healthcare reformsSat Dec 30 2017 - 01:00
Doubts raised about 1,800 promised extra health staff jobsHSE says it is too early to say how many additional staff will be recruited in 2018Sat Dec 23 2017 - 01:45
‘Little change’ to doctor recruitment practices, says reportMany of 25 recommendations on improving graduate retention in the public health system have not been implementedFri Dec 22 2017 - 12:26
