HSE

‘I was wary about finding a PA and building a connection’

Independence is very important to me – I can plan my days around the hours I have my PA and confidently accept opportunities to do things outside my hometown

GLP-1s in Ireland: How weight-loss medications work under the HSE system

Ozempic and Mounjaro are not available for free on medical card or subsidised by the Drugs Payment Scheme

Who is affected by the public sector strike and can it be averted?

Public sector industrial action presents a big challenge for parents and patients amid escalation of dispute

How can runaway spending in the health service be reined in?

The budget overrun in the health service could reach €1bn by the end of year, despite spending curbs being put in place

Public sector strike ‘inevitable’ and will see up to 150,000 medical appointments cancelled

First of two scheduled walkouts will bring widespread disruption, with further escalation possible in November

Hospital waiting lists climb above one million people

Irish Patients’ Association chief calls on Coalition to advance ‘credible recovery plan’

Irish children forced into criminality inappropriately punished, major report finds

The US State Department says gaps in victim identification mean Irish children are rarely recognised as trafficking victims

Three-day abortion wait must be removed

No health-related reasons have been shown for the imposition of the mandatory waiting period

‘AI Minister’ Niamh Smyth: ‘I’d have a very different view than President Trump’

Minister says she is ‘cautiously optimistic’ and excited by AI - but also has concerns over its impact on Irish labour market

‘I said I had a headache every day’: Hospital apologises for Mayo woman’s brain tumour diagnosis delays

Mary Keane (49) had two MRI scans after suffering severe headaches, but these were misreported, it was claimed

Nurses stage lunchtime protests at number of hospitals nationwide

Protests are planned in advance of work stoppages that will begin in public health service next week

Boy (8) settles action over circumstances of birth at Cork hospital for €7.5m

Senior counsel for the boy said his first breath was four minutes after his birth

Half of HSE regions have ‘eaten into’ next year’s budget due to overruns, Minister says

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said steps are being taken to prevent the overruns from reaching the billion figure

Medical Council complaints

Guiding people to more appropriate complaint routes would benefit patients, doctors and the regulator

‘I was shocked by it because of the spin beforehand’: How a healthcare worker, engineer and student view Budget 2027

Student says budget lacks any ‘meaningful’ action to resolve accommodation crisis and fails to protect students from fare increases

Campaigners to make case for re-establishing stem cell laboratory in Cork

Lab would increase national capacity to treat cancers and save patients and families long journeys to Dublin or Galway

HIV Ireland quit HSE programme due to ‘slagging’ and claims of corruption, WRC told

Charity defends complaint of whistleblower penalisation brought by veteran manager accused of bullying

‘I decided to take a leap of faith’: Largest ever number of GPs graduate

Largest ever graduation of GPs, as State moves to increase numbers to meet demand

Delay of children’s hospital would ‘impose considerable additional costs’, Minister warns

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill issued warning to contractor earlier this year over continued delays

‘State bodies need to know they are being watched’: Government TD launches public spending site

Backbencher wants to create ‘panopticon’ for State entities and says Taoiseach approves

If we’re going to listen to women, we need to listen to all women

The three-day wait protects the essential time needed in a way that voluntary waiting periods do not

Budget talks enter ‘banging fists on the table’ phase – metaphorically at least

Inside Politics: Meanwhile, Brexit is back and the Drumcree stand-off continues

‘Literally unbelievable’: Ministers get ‘a kicking’ from Chambers’s team as budget talks near end

Jack Chambers fights to meet 6 per cent limit on increases, with Ministers complaining bitterly

OPW paid large Revenue settlement over renting properties to staff at below market rates

C&AG report also shows ‘loss of value’ from Defence Forces’ purchase of armoured vehicle fleet

CervicalCheck claims cost State nearly €19m – C&AG report

Figures include €6.6m in damages paid to people who took legal action over 2018 smear test scandal

Removing three-day wait would lead to rise in ‘already massive’ number of abortions, GP says

Dr Kirsten Fuller claims the ‘majority’ of GPs don’t agree that abortion is a form of healthcare

Minister for Health stands over Cork University Hospital safety and staffing levels

Hospital chief executive had said she did not believe it safe to enter winter ‘with the level of staffing uncertainty that currently exists’.

HSE financial ‘imbalance’ at start of year contributed to problems, says chief executive

Anne O’Connor tells staff substantial savings planned for 2025 not delivered and then carried into this year

‘Why I breastfed my fourth baby after bottle-feeding the others’

One in two babies still get breast milk at three months old, as rates rise slowly

Government to authorise new funding as €700m agreed in April runs out

Ministers told no longer sufficient funds to pay for measures agreed by Ministers over recent months

The budget is now like a children’s party, with a prize for everyone

It may be some time before the ‘winners’ realise that the budget goodies were a costly mistake

Inside Budget 2027: ‘The meeting was brutal’ - the tensions on the road to new spending package

In 10 days Simon Harris and Jack Chambers will present their budget – in Government back rooms the horse-trading with fellow Ministers is in full swing

HSE spending approval plan neatly illustrates why its budget control is in such a mess

The chief executive will be signing such orders nonstop and doing little else for a salary of €406,000

Nation ‘sleepwalking into biggest social and healthcare challenge’, nursing homes warn

Sector braces for scale-up to meet demand for places, but funding challenges stand in way

Financial deficit in health service could hit €1bn, Dáil Public Accounts Committee hears

Scrapping private practice in public hospitals to cost HSE €140m

Male victims ‘likely to underreport’ sexual violence, says head of Cork centre

New head of Sexual Violence Centre Cork stresses service is for both men and women

Health service to have ‘significant deficit’ at end of year, HSE to tell PAC

Gap between funded service levels and real cost of delivery now ‘increasingly structural’, TDs to hear

Irish hospitals appointing non-EU doctors without police clearance

HSE internal audit warns of potential patient safety and reputational risks

Three-day abortion wait hits women in ‘straitened circumstances’ hardest, HSE says

HSE experts also told TDs there is ‘overwhelming evidence’ against mandatory waiting periods

Patients would contribute more for drugs under proposed policy

New recruitment and spending restrictions to be introduced in health service in coming days amid Government concern at €700m overrun

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