Ministers and key hospitals clash over financial controls
Ministers intervene to insist new €200m management system is deployed across voluntary and HSE hospitals
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Health Minister not ruling out extra hospital to solve HSE Mid West overcrowding
State’s health watchdog recommends three options for improving patient safety in the region
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Minister writes to HSE expressing ‘deep concern’ at emergency care in some hospitals
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill warns of ‘heightened risk to patients’ if underlying issues not tackled
CHI board concerned three years ago over insourcing in hospitals
HSE chiefs to update Oireachtas committee on use of private companies which used public-service personnel and facilities after hours to reduce waiting lists
Hiqa report highlights how healthcare impasse in midwest can be linked to one decision
Current situation can be tied back to the closure of three smaller EDs in 2009
Mother of boy (9) who died after waiting years for spinal surgery ‘cautiously optimistic’ on CHI inquiry
Gillian Sherratt says ‘priority and focus’ must be on helping those children still relying on the State, CHI and HSE
Recommendations of Hiqa review of HSE Mid-West branded ‘very disrespectful’ by campaigners
Third option to tackle overcrowding is to develop a new hospital in HSE Mid West, says Hiqa
Government commits to CHI inquiry after meeting Harvey Morrison Sherratt’s parents
Harvey, who died in July aged nine, waited years for surgery
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It is hard not to link the decision to the chequered performance of CHI over the last eight years
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Children’s Health Ireland to be folded into HSE
Move follows months of controversy, notably relating to orthopaedic and spinal services
Minister urged to intercede over regulator row in psychotherapy sector
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Minister for Health briefed on Drogheda hospital concern weeks before patients
Patients advised of file reviews 11 weeks after HSE raised it with department, Labour’s Ged Nash says
New financial safeguards planned for national maternity hospital project
Government seeks to implement lessons learned from national children’s hospital construction
Minister for Health will not attend hospital consultants’ annual conference
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill’s meeting in March with the senior clinicians’ association was described as ‘tense’
Pharmacy sector to receive additional €75m under new agreement with State
Pharmacists will be able to prescribe medication for a number of common conditions under agreement
Two-thirds of public hospitals have unsafe bed-occupancy levels in first half of 2025
Occupancy at 95.9% nationally in the first six months of the year, where 85% considered the limit, new figures show
CHI still faces questions over waiting list irregularities and orthopaedic care
Children’s Health Ireland still faces inquiries into its services which are yet to be completed
Doubts grow that planned State elective hospitals will be built before 2030s
Minister did not secure sufficient funding to pay for all key health projects, says Sinn Féin
Garda deemed report into potential CHI waiting list irregularities ‘not suitable’ for investigation
Confidential document on work culture and use of funding to cut public waiting lists was leaked widely in the media earlier this year
Number of children on community healthcare waiting lists rises to 42,000
More than 14,000 children waiting more than a year for psychological services, figures show
Time, stress and cost deemed factors in preventing women from safeguarding heart health
Barriers to healthy living include cost of good food and gym membership, notes Irish Heart Foundation data
Consultant at centre of review in Drogheda’s Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital has left country
Just over 1,000 cases being looked at as part of analysis relating to tissue diagnoses slides across various specialities
National children’s hospital developer BAM’s claims ‘not credible’, says Minister
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill says she has concerns about BAM’s ability to meet its work programme
More than 1,000 patient cases examined as part of review at Drogheda hospital
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital is taking a look back at all histopathology slides seen by one consultant
New plan aims to improve diagnosis and care for people with rare diseases
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Minister for Health addressed risks of violence against politicians during Béal na Bláth oration
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Teva Pharmaceuticals, which makes Sudocrem, is one of the largest suppliers of generic medicines to HSE
Was Michael Collins behind plan for French military airfields in Ireland?
UCC historian Jerome Aan de Wiel unearths diplomatic archive material showing Collins’s associate overture to French intelligence
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Department of Health introduced new vaccination programme for babies last year
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Medical device company paid €720,000 twice by HSE for the same invoice now in liquidation
Company is now in liquidation, and health service says it is engaged with liquidator to recover overpayment
Semi-synthetic cannabinoid HHC reclassified as an illegal drug
Drug is commonly sold in e-cigarettes and vape pens or in edibles jellies
Inquiries under way into further allegations around waiting list initiatives at Children’s Health Ireland
Public Accounts Committee and Minister hears that consultant paid €40,000 in 2018 to treat patients on his waiting list at private hospital
Inquiry begins into historical use of anti-epileptic drug and effects on pregnant women
Mothers of children diagnosed with foetal valproate syndrome disorder had demanded investigation
State agencies to implement new rules aiming to enhance transparency in political ads
Introduction of alcohol warning labels to be deferred for two years, Ministers to hear
HPV vaccine catch-up programme to be rolled out in schools ‘without delay’
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Ministers sought multiples of available funding as part of national plan review
Spending on five key areas yet to be resolved in advance of launch of revised National Development Plan next week
Warning labels on alcohol an idea from ‘different time’, Minister warned Cabinet colleague
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