GPs warn new community services not possible unless cuts reversedSimon Harris to unveil €810m investment in primary care facilities over next 10 yearsMon Feb 26 2018 - 00:01
Most whiplash claims are ‘frankly spurious’, GP body saysICGP says given dynamics of doctor-patient relationship, doctors can be ‘hopelessly compromised’Sun Feb 25 2018 - 17:54
CIÉ management pension scheme faces €200m deficitPension scheme for front-line staff faces €10 million deficit, transport group saysSat Feb 24 2018 - 06:56
Psychiatric units in Waterford, Kilkenny hit by industrial action‘Vital services cannot be delivered adequately’ due to overcrowding, say nursesTue Feb 20 2018 - 14:06
Hospitals invoked top-level protocol for tackling overcrowding hundreds of timesOver 620 people on trolleys or wards awaiting a hospital bedTue Feb 20 2018 - 13:49
Private hospitals make emergency care offerHospitals pledge to invest in order to take patients currently seen in public facilitiesTue Feb 20 2018 - 00:01
Hiqa publishes details of inquiry prompted by maternity hospital deathHarris says he has reasonable grounds to believe there is a particular patient safety riskMon Feb 19 2018 - 13:58
Over 640 patients waiting on trolleys and in wards, say nursesINMO says 59 patients waiting for a bed at Cork University HospitalMon Feb 19 2018 - 12:03
Health service staff working after retirement age could face pay cutsSiptu claims staff could lose increments if re-hired on new fixed-term contractsMon Feb 19 2018 - 01:00
When is a consultant not a consultant? Quite often actuallyHospitals are relying on non-specialists as consultants. What of the patients?Sat Feb 17 2018 - 06:15
New hospitals and primary care centres under €11bn health planExtra 2,600 hospital beds to be provided over 10-year period to 2027, according to planFri Feb 16 2018 - 14:00
Psychiatric nurses in Waterford vote for industrial actionUnion says overcrowding and staff shortages ‘compromising patient care and staff safety’Fri Feb 16 2018 - 12:33
Dublin Metro will extend into southside suburbsTaoiseach outlines parts of the new development strategy for Ireland up to 2040Fri Feb 16 2018 - 10:56
Additional hospital beds to be delivered four years early by 2027‘Project Ireland – 2040’ plan to be announced after Cabinet meeting in SligoFri Feb 16 2018 - 01:00
Shortall urges end to cross-subsidies for private hospital practicesSláintecare proposals: Move would offset loss of nearly €650m in annual income, says TDThu Feb 15 2018 - 11:45
Minister rejects allowance for public service staff in DublinPaschal Donohoe rules out special grant for workers to offset higher costs in the capitalTue Feb 13 2018 - 22:30
Metro North plan change considered by GovernmentMore of 17km track could be underground under revised proposals for airport rail linkTue Feb 13 2018 - 06:00
Government told to spruce up pay rates to attract cleanersUnion says few applicants for posts in Department of Taoiseach and Garda SíochánaTue Feb 13 2018 - 01:00
Call for consultants who are ‘acting up’ to wear special IDConcern over 70-plus doctors in consultant posts who are not on register of specialistsTue Feb 13 2018 - 01:00
Consultants say Sláintecare reforms could cost €20bn over 10 yearsIHCA claims removing private patients from public hospitals will cost €800m per year in lost incomeSun Feb 11 2018 - 21:24
Talks aimed at averting train strike to resume on MondayIndustrial dispute centres on a row over pay and mentoring of new driversFri Feb 09 2018 - 21:58
Planned strike in health and social care agencies suspendedSiptu says new process will see pay restored for ‘Section 39’ staff on phased basisFri Feb 09 2018 - 13:56
Talks to avert strike by train drivers over mentoring rowDrivers reject deal that would see them receive 1.15% pay rise for past productivityFri Feb 09 2018 - 07:02
Galway, Cork, west Dublin hospitals to come under capital planNational Development Plan will not include extension to Western Rail CorridorFri Feb 09 2018 - 01:00
Government’s capital plan to include a new hospital in Cork‘Irish Times’ learns the Western Rail Corridor will not be extended in the schemeThu Feb 08 2018 - 02:16
Simon Harris defends increase in health budgetMinister responds to HSE chief’s warnings of a potential €880m shortfall for the executiveThu Feb 08 2018 - 01:00
HSE will ‘remain neutral’ on abortion debate, says health chiefCommittee hears of HSE staff member using official paper to correspond on issueWed Feb 07 2018 - 10:53
Government may let people defer State pension to qualify for higher benefitsDemographic pressures will put pressure on pension provision, conference toldWed Feb 07 2018 - 01:00
Temporary employees earn 20% less than permanent counterpartsAbout 200,000 people are working in non-permanent jobs in Ireland, study findsTue Feb 06 2018 - 13:59
Train strike looms as NBRU to ballot drivers over actionUnion accuses Irish Rail of ‘unprecedented attack’ on industrial relationsMon Feb 05 2018 - 15:33
State may have to bail out health service over shortfallQuestions remain over HSE presentation of spending plans in context of its certain deficitMon Feb 05 2018 - 01:00
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
