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
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
