HSE at odds with medical training body over treatment of emergency department patientsHospitals told to allow specialist teams outside ED review patients suffering delaysThu Mar 23 2023 - 05:00
Hospitals warned against using medical trainees to assess ED patientsRCPI says it may withdraw accreditation from sites where junior doctors see triaged patients from EDWed Mar 22 2023 - 05:00
Cystic fibrosis drug for 35 children approved after lengthy delay caused by price disputeKaftrio approved for use in group of CF patients in January 2022 but access was held up by row between HSE and manufacturerTue Mar 21 2023 - 19:03
Overseas doctors campaigners among four elected to Medical CouncilOrganisation reveals outcome of votes by registered doctorsTue Mar 21 2023 - 18:34
Mediterranean diet may cut heart disease in women by 25%, study suggestsDiet of nuts, seafood, whole grains and vegetables is recommendedWed Mar 15 2023 - 05:00
Covid app to be decommissioned despite thousands checking statisticsJust 292 Covid cases reported on Monday and 17 deaths occurred in the last weekTue Mar 14 2023 - 20:26
Irish patients warned against weight-loss procedure in Turkey after rise in botulism casesSixty cases of the life-threatening illness have been linked to a private hospital in Istanbul, says ECDCTue Mar 14 2023 - 15:06
Backlog of 1,500 patients awaiting payment for treatment abroad, report saysLack of permanent staff a factor in 2½-month delay in processing cross-border treatment applications, says HSE unitTue Mar 14 2023 - 05:00
Time to Think, The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children: cause for concernHannah Barnes’ study of a controversial London clinic used by the HSE is forensic and sombreSat Mar 11 2023 - 08:00
Excess deaths in Ireland this winter linked to rise in flu and pneumoniaFlu and pneumonia surges plus continuing Covid cases are factors as deaths last December rose 25% more than expectedSat Mar 11 2023 - 05:00
Report finds 23 out of 26 hospital emergency departments fail to treat patients on timeGovernment report highlights ‘growing divergence’ between spending and activity since 2017Sat Mar 11 2023 - 05:00
Patient safety: Only three hospitals in Ireland admitting emergency department patients on time, report findsInterventions to tackle long waits in emergency departments have been ‘potentially ineffective’, Government analysis findsFri Mar 10 2023 - 14:00
New hospital consultant contracts risk replacing one two-tier anomaly with anotherConsultants give cold shoulder to public-only contract intended to end system allowing doctors to treat private patients in public hospitalsWed Mar 08 2023 - 04:45
IMO members reject €257,000-a-year public-only contractFifty-five per cent of current consultants said they will not switch to the new contract,Tue Mar 07 2023 - 16:04
Families with parents from ‘sexual minorities’ fare as well as traditional families, study findsSexual orientation of parents not an important determinant of children’s development, researchers sayMon Mar 06 2023 - 23:30
Waiting lists, burned out staff, no accountability: New HSE chief faces big challengesBernard Gloster, the man at the helm of the health service will need to tackle issues including long waiting lists, high staff turnover and out-of-date IT systemsMon Mar 06 2023 - 19:36
Call to tackle GP crisis by giving medical students more exposure to general practiceMore places to train interns could help promote career choice amid acute shortages, report saysSat Mar 04 2023 - 05:00
Powerful people will have to ‘give away’ power for Sláintecare to proceed, Oireachtas committee hearsDelivering healthcare plans will require years more of political priority, resource allocation and skilled leadership, according to the director of the Centre for Health PolicyWed Mar 01 2023 - 12:54
Seriously ill patients forced to wait extra nine minutes for ambulance as staff shortages biteSinn Féin claims Government has ‘chosen’ not to fund service, leading to staff burnout and patient riskWed Mar 01 2023 - 05:00
Baby died after ‘traumatic’ delivery into toilet at Rotunda, inquest hearsOpen verdict returned as Dublin maternity hospital admits monitoring policy was not followed ‘to the letter’Tue Feb 28 2023 - 19:06
Covid pandemic response ‘depended on fear’, says former Nphet member‘Overwhelming’ evidence for mandatory vaccination against Covid, says Prof Martin CormicanSun Feb 26 2023 - 19:48
Thalidomide survivors: Mediation on issues of financial support and State apology to get under way Ireland’s thalidomide survivors renew appeal for what they consider appropriate redress over delays in removing Thalidomide from marketSun Feb 26 2023 - 16:18
More than a third of all new drug approvals take longer than two years to completeReport shows HSE completes just 36% of all applications for drug reimbursement within a yearFri Feb 24 2023 - 12:29
Ambulance shortage forcing firefighters to respond to medical emergencies, committee hearsNational Ambulance Service and Dublin Fire Brigade plead for more resources but reject claims of duplication in capitalWed Feb 22 2023 - 12:58
Kerry hospital: ‘Gross overcrowding’ sees bed wait of up to nearly four daysHiqa report on University Hospital Kerry in Tralee says overcrowding and staff shortages pose substantial patient safety risksWed Feb 22 2023 - 10:00
Family of woman who died in childbirth seek reopening of inquestConsultant David McMurray found guilty of professional misconduct over delay in attending Tracey Campbell FitzpatrickWed Feb 22 2023 - 00:01
Staying physically active the key to better brain function as you ageResearchers find maintaining exercise through the adult years best for preserving memoryTue Feb 21 2023 - 23:39
Frank Feely, former Dublin city manager, dies at 91The public face of Dublin Corporation for almost two decades, Feely oversaw celebrations for the city’s millennium in 1988Mon Feb 20 2023 - 15:59
Covid vaccine programme for children aged between six months and four to begin in Ireland Vaccination recommended for young children with underlying health conditionsFri Feb 17 2023 - 07:08
Worst of medicine shortage is ‘over’, says Irish boss of EU agencyEmer Cooke says the situation was ‘unique’ and measures are being taken to avoid a repeat next winterThu Feb 16 2023 - 05:00
Breastfeeding ‘safeguards infants’ from respiratory infections, research findsEven partial breastfeeding can reduce hospitalisation from common respiratory infection, according to Limerick researchersTue Feb 14 2023 - 05:00
Almost 1,300 people died due to delays in hospital admission from A&E, data suggestsExcess deaths among Irish patients in winter period up to January 29th rose to 1,278Tue Feb 14 2023 - 00:01
Salmonella infections more than double as one outbreak reportedThere were 39 cases in the first five weeks of the year compared with 18 in the same period last yearSat Feb 11 2023 - 16:19
Excess deaths in Ireland and beyond: what is behind the surge in mortality rates? It seems everyone has a story about all the funerals they have been attending lately, and available data supports this impressionSat Feb 11 2023 - 05:00
Hospital waiting lists rise in January due to cancellation of appointmentsOvercrowding crisis blew Government’s targets for waiting list reduction even further off-courseFri Feb 10 2023 - 18:17
Mater Private evacuated after fire alert with patients and staff ushered out of buildingThose in building exited onto Eccles Street after the alarm sounded, in accordance with protocolsFri Feb 10 2023 - 13:58
Moving children’s stem cell transplants to Ireland would ‘ease burden’ on patientsChildren with rare inherited diseases currently have to travel to UK for treatmentThu Feb 09 2023 - 16:44
More medical and other health course places planned to address HSE staffing shortageStephen Donnelly calling for 120 extra medicine students this autumn letter obtained under Freedom of Information Act revealsTue Feb 07 2023 - 05:00
HSE staff subjected to ‘inappropriate and highly personalised comments’ at meeting with Government TDsPaul Reid complained about ‘strong and uninhibited language’ being directed at his senior managers at unscheduled meetingMon Feb 06 2023 - 05:00
Fewer than 3,000 people prescribed antiviral pill that prevents them becoming seriously ill with CovidAttempts to make Paxlovid more freely available have so far not resulted in a significant uptake of the treatmentSun Feb 05 2023 - 19:00
Seriously ill patients waited over 24 hours on average for bed at three hospitalsAverage wait times to admit seriously ill patients at least a day in hospitals in Cork and TallaghtFri Feb 03 2023 - 00:00
All-night surgery should end in many hospitals to focus on safer care, report saysAt present, 25 hospitals provide round-the-clock emergency surgery, presenting staffing challengesThu Feb 02 2023 - 18:26
Dublin ambulance services failing to respond on time in quarter of ‘life-threatening’ cases - reportDublin City Council opposed release of report it commissioned with HSE that says overlapping services are failing to hit targets for responding to most urgent callsThu Feb 02 2023 - 05:00
Dublin’s ambulance crisis goes on because authorities are not trying hard enoughPaul Cullen: The siren has been sounding for decades about the inefficient way ambulances services are run in the capitalThu Feb 02 2023 - 03:15
Terminally ill cancer patients ‘forced into overcrowded EDs’ to access careCancer services ‘may be going backward’ as progress stalls, says Irish Cancer SocietyWed Feb 01 2023 - 12:50
Poorest are 40% more likely to die from cancer than more affluent, report saysIreland needs to do more to tackle inequalities in cancer outcomes, says OECDWed Feb 01 2023 - 11:00
Blood cancer patients to benefit from first use of ‘living drug’ to treat multiple myelomaFirst Irish trial to treat patients with Car-T immunotherapy opens at St James’s Hospital in DublinWed Feb 01 2023 - 03:00
People in State’s most deprived areas have higher risk of dying from cancer, report findsSurvival from cancers improving but outcome disparities between most and least deprived unchanged, National Cancer Registry Ireland saysWed Feb 01 2023 - 00:01
Medicine shortage: What impact is it having in Ireland?A lack of key drugs causes workload mayhem for GPs and pharmacists as well as being a threat to the health and habits of patientsTue Jan 31 2023 - 05:00
Report calls for life support facilities for children with respiratory illnessesThis winter, a number of children with severe respiratory illness had to be transported to Sweden for ECMO treatment because this is still not funded in IrelandTue Jan 31 2023 - 00:01
