Coalition unwilling to revisit Covid-19 restrictions despite mounting pressure
Minister urged to reconsider public health advice as hospitals struggle with Covid surge
Return to mandatory mask-wearing would not change trajectory of Covid wave, Taoiseach says
Micheál Martin acknowledges pressure on hospitals but says BA.2 is too transmissible
Reintroduce mask-wearing rules, say ‘exhausted’ hospital staff
Taoiseach confirms that pandemic emergency powers will be allowed expire
Covid-19: Containing BA.2 variant would need ‘extreme measures’, Donnelly says
Emergency department taskforce asks Minister for urgent fresh public health advice
Doctors warn of growing pressure on hospitals due to Delta variant
Emergency departments seeing record daily attendance in recent weeks, says consultant
Coronavirus: Dublin to remain under Level 3 until October 10th - Taoiseach
Taoiseach says there is a very real threat that Dublin could return to the early days of virus
Please stop calling 999 or 112 for coronavirus information, says HSE
Liam Woods says all 13 confirmed cases in Ireland were being treated in hospital
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
Minister says early flu season has led to more people on trolleys
Simon Harris admits numbers on trolleys are ‘extraordinarily high’ as 19 deaths reported from flu
Record 108,364 people stuck on a hospital trolley so far this year
INMO seeking formal intervention by Health Information and Quality Authority
HSE says healthcare strike will have significant impact on services
Harris says decision to strike on Wednesday before Labour Court talks is ‘extraordinary’
Nurses’ initial one-day strike gets widespread backing
Prominent doctors line up to support fellow health professionals but wary note also sounded
Number on trolleys could pass 1,000 this winter, IMO event told
IMO president Dr Peadar Gilligan tells conference health service is not ‘a black hole’
Number of patients on trolleys reaches an all-time high of 656
People urged to get flu vaccine, as HSE warns situation to get worse before it gets better
No-show by 20 locum doctors fails to close emergency departments
Tallaght, Navan and Portlaoise hospitals most affected by locum pay dispute
Roadside drug tests may tackle prescription painkiller ‘epidemic’
Emergency medicine consultant berates ‘intellectual snobbery’ around cocaine use
Government needs to increase hospital bed capacity, says FF
Fianna Fáil health spokesman Billy Kelleher refers to consultant’s warning people will die
Over 75s left on trolleys for over 12 hours less likely to live independently – consultant
Fergal Hickey defends figures indicating that between 300- 350 die each year due to ED overcrowding
Kenny dismisses call from Adams to revisit health budget
Taoiseach says €14.6 billion ‘very, very substantial’ amount in response to SF leader
‘Up to 350 patients dying due to lack of ICU capacity’
Ireland spending lot of money on health but outcomes consistently poor, conference told
Ireland has too many emergency departments, consultant says
Emergency trauma units are to be shut in nine hospitals across the State, a report is to say
Uprecedented outbreak of vomiting bug hits Sligo hospital
Management appeals to public to stay away unless absolutely necessary
Unresolved issues around hospital overcrowding
There is ‘incontrovertible evidence that if patients over 75 are detained on a trolley for in excess of 12 hours they will suffer worse outcomes’
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