Report says 50% more consultants and 32% more GPs needed in coming years
Doctors say HSE report confirms gravity of recruitment and retention crisis in medicine
Coronavirus: Medical staff may face ‘emotional distress’ over patient prioritisation
Document aims to aid difficult decisions on patient priority and resource allocation
Coronavirus: Medics get guidelines on 'difficult decisions to be made'
Advice an aid to staff ‘in thinking through difficult decisions that will need to be made’
Medical consultants seek 800 extra beds and new targets for timely delivery of care
IHCA calls on Harris to end two-tier pay system for specialist doctors
HSE chief calls for fewer emergency departments
Paul Reid says progress being made in reducing overcrowding as trolley numbers fall
Trolley crisis: Harris averse to cancelling planned admissions
Overcrowding in hospitals remains at record levels for second successive day, say nurses
Number of patients on trolleys remains at 760 on Tuesday
Figure equals record level of overcrowding, HSE says hospitals under ‘significant pressure’
Hospital beds crisis: ‘It's like trying to put out a fire with a tea cup’
Consultants say HSE plans will fail to provide enough beds to ease overcrowding
Consultant blames Cork politicians for CUH recruitment crisis
ICHA member says consultants are moving to private hospital due to working conditions
Hospital consultants vote no confidence in Simon Harris
IHCA to ‘significantly escalate’ its campaign over two-tier pay system for specialists
HSE chief says different pay rates for consultants a barrier to recruitment
Fianna Fáil pledges to end two-tier pay system for hospital consultants appointed since 2012 if it leads the next government
Acute hospital system is at breaking point, say consultants
IHCA says treatment waiting lists growing by 7,000 per month
Hospital waiting lists for outpatient appointments reach new high
Since the start of 2019 an additional 48,660 have joined the waiting list
New €40 million cancer treatment centre in Cork
Glandore Centre at Cork University Hospital will cater for 2,000 cancer patients a year
Waterford hospital mortuary pathologists defended by association
IHCA’s president said consultants have full support, was ‘alarmed’ by Government response
Excessive workload affecting patient care, say doctors
Survey finds 90% of consultants in public hospitals believe workload ‘unmanageable’
Many patients missing out on vital operations, consultants group claims
Efforts to cut trolley numbers and bed, doctor shortages impacting on ‘urgent cancer surgery’
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