Many people with vital expertise and experience just don’t want to be on healthcare boards anymore, because it’s not worth the risk of reputational damage
Private contractors cut costs at the expense of either workers or services, union official says
Scoliosis Advocacy Network and Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus Paediatric Advocacy Group say families ‘ringing the alarm bell for years’
Analysis: Patients will be the real winners says HSE chief as threat to service disruption this week is lifted
Decision follows 22 hours of engagement at Workplace Relations Commission
Group that runs St Vincent’s University Hospital and St Michael’s in Dun Laoghaire wants more support from community services to facilitate discharges
HSE chief Bernard Gloster says action ‘regrettable’ and would breach terms of public sector pay deal
Patients must have access to the care they need, health service chief executive told
Chief executive Bernard Gloster says health service spends €29.8million on postal costs and must move towards communication by text and email
Health App is among first initiatives of Digital for Care framework
Senior Minister earlier said Government ‘expects and insists’ that HSE should work within agreements
Cork, Galway, Limerick, St James’s and St Vincent’s accounted for 44% of people waiting for beds, noted top civil servant
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Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill brings memo to Cabinet detailing new waiting list action plan aimed at reducing waiting times for patients
Health services to move to operating health services over a seven-day rather than a Monday-Friday basis
Much staff opposition has fallen away and uptake is higher than had been predicted, though it seems clear the outgoing Minister is not content with the pace of change
Parties report steady progress but difficult areas yet to be discussed
Difficulty predicting numbers leave HSE having to adapt - with potential cold snap accidents adding to pressure
Continuing cold snap will be ‘punitive’, with HSE chief executive calling for people take care of older o
Head of the HSE says health service is taking ‘several measures’ to prepare for potential surge in hospitalisations and intensive care numbers
‘Peak flu’ expected in next fortnight as HSE reiterates advice on hand hygiene and cough etiquette
Overall number attending emergency departments between December 20th and 27th reaches 34,400, up from 27,800 last year
Health service chief urges people to attend A&E only if very ill or in an emergency situation
More than 13 per cent waited more than 24 hours, Hiqa experience survey finds
The hospitals wrote to the HSE saying they were facing a financial shortfall of more than €100 million
HSE to pay 75% of Prof Brian Lenehan’s legal costs for the case
Prof Brian Lenehan takes case over being put on leave following death of teenager Aoife Johnston
Healthcare is at climate frontline, notably in emergency departments and at primary care level, conference hears
INMO members to commence ballot for industrial action on Monday in protest at employment ceiling introduced in the HSE
Prof Brian Lenehan, suspended in the wake of reports into death of the Co Clare teenager, told the High Court that decision to suspend him lacks reason
Risk of reoccurrence of circumstances that led to death of Aoife Johnston at Limerick hospital still present ‘but I think the risk is less’, says Bernard Gloster
Bernard Gloster tells Oireachtas committee that report into death of Aoife Johnston at UHL will be published by next Monday
HSE chief Gloster expected to say demand for services increasing at faster rate than predicted before pandemic
Clare teenager (16) died of meningitis in December 2022 with suspected sepsis that went untreated for more than 12 hours
HSE publishes first report of Opportunistic Case Finding Programme at its national conference on integrated care
Decision to postpone scheduled care is ‘abandonment of the people’ in the midwest, says IHCA
University Hospital Limerick among those hospitals requiring ‘resets’, says Bernard Gloster, amid emergency department demand
Termination payment of €1.6m to outgoing staff member revealed in Comptroller and Auditor General report
Health service chief recently told senior managers staffing ‘now at a level not previously seen and continues to grow’
Health service will now have an approved workforce close to 130,000 as recruitment pause eased
Department of Health research unit also recommends increasing hospital activity by changing the default to day case rather than inpatient treatment
Review by independent safeguarding expert Jackie McIlroy was commissioned by HSE in wake of ‘Emily’ rape case
HSE chief executive says he expects movement on issue ‘shortly’
A recruitment freeze and plans to drastically reduce reliance on agency staff go not seem to go hand in hand
Work to begin immediately on devising actions designed to ease crowding and pressures in hospital and HSE’s Mid West region
Ministers and office of Taoiseach became involved in issue surrounding departure of ex-deputy director general, files show
Victorian building should be transferred to Dublin City Council for housing or cultural use, councillor says
Demand for services in EDs rose 12% in early part of year
HSE chief executive to tell members of Oireachtas Committee on Health that service now employing largest workforce to date
Overcrowding continues as Limerick hospital postponed non-urgent surgeries for two days
Agreement, reached following mediation, was authorised by Department of Health and Department of Public Expenditure
HSE inquiry to establish ‘what happened and how, and then to take any appropriate actions’
Records show financial crisis facing disability care provider had been building for years
HSE has cut spending on agency staff and overtime as well implementing a recruitment freeze for the vast majority of staff
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