Women weary of being ‘exported’ when medical profession unable to meet vital healthcare needs
GPs should pause to ‘reflect, review, rethink’ when woman shows same symptoms three times in 12 months
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Health staff face sweeping promotion restrictions under spending controls
Staffing rules introduced by HSE to tackle potential €1bn overrun as doctors, nurses warn of significant patient risk
Tighter oversight of health service spending likely to stoke simmering tensions
Nine months into a new funding system, most health regions have autonomy on day-to-day spending revoked
Advert showing grandparents hugging grandchildren is taken down amid criticism
Dublin Rape Crisis Centre removes online video, saying it does not want ‘negativity’ to impinge on its work
No link between healthcare staff recruitment and hospital performance, says Minister
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill compares Cork to Beaumont, where fewer patients are on trolleys
Government rows back on promise to hold tribunal into scoliosis and spinal surgery scandal
Issues include unauthorised springs implanted in children, alleged waiting list irregularities and unnecessary hip surgeries
Irish doctors say UK bid to crack down on ‘cosmetic cowboys’ does not go far enough
Under new rules, procedures including ‘Brazilian butt lifts’ could only be performed by doctors
Minister for Health says onus on everyone to ensure private care bills paid by insurers
Public Accounts Committee told €125m of insurance claims written off over four years in HSE hospitals
Government wants HSE to cap hospital parking fee at €10 a day
Minister tells Dáil committee that health service will carry out new national review of charges
Construction of new National Maternity Hospital expected to begin next year
The €1.86 billion project is due for completion in 2033
Health budget no longer based on evidence, consultants’ conference told
Cork University Hospital CEO says returning to HSE ‘like stepping back in time’
Consultants’ private healthcare in public settings has ‘ceased’, HSE review finds
All regions provided assurance private practice in public settings had ceased, HSE says
Senior hospital doctors criticise Minister for Health’s ‘closed-door’ approach to engagement
Union says if ‘engagement is being systematically discouraged or prevented, that would be a matter of ‘profound concern’
First children’s hospice outside Dublin to be built in Co Mayo
Sunflower Children’s Hospice in Castlebar due to be completed in 2029
The Irish Times view on the National Drugs Strategy: incremental change
A fudge on decriminalisation brings policy a bit closer to reality on the ground
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
‘It is labour intensive but vital work’: An island-hopping GP on the west coast
Dr Noreen Curtis takes a curragh out to remote islands off the Co Mayo coast in her role as a medicine-dispensing GP
‘They were all sick of each other by then’: Inside the Government rooms where the budget was made
Fraught last-minute haggling in back rooms dominated the final days of negotiations as spending Minister Jack Chambers dug in
Budget 2027 continues extraordinary rise in State spending
Inside Politics: Hard to know who’ll blink first in standoff between Government and public sector unions
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
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
EU plan to share doctors’ professional history in crackdown on struck-off medics overseas
Investigation found 11 seriously sanctioned UK doctors still registered in Ireland
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’.
The Irish Times view on the scoliosis inquiry: families must be heard
Minister should seek a model that commands their confidence
‘Worse than we feared’: Patient advocacy groups criticise proposed scoliosis and spina bifida inquiry
Inquiry risks becoming ‘farcical exercise in administrative sleight of hand’, advocacy group says
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
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
Inpatient hospital treatment rises just 2% despite 52% spending increase, data shows
Analysis leads Minister for Health to criticise hospitals unable to explain ‘consistently’ poor trolley figures
Schoolgirl seeks to raise awareness of sepsis after losing her hands and feet to infection
Almost 12,000 cases of sepsis and septic shock recorded in Irish hospitals last year, with death rate standing at 21.2%
Minister for Health defends Saturday hospital unit that treated five patients in 12 weeks
Consultants helped tackle surging inpatient numbers, too, during pilot project, which was ‘not real test’ of system
Saturday hospital unit staffed by consultants saw just five patients over three months
Weekend pilot of acute medical assessment unit reports no improvement in ED patient flow
Overspending health regions to be asked to slow hiring after headcount surge
Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said there had been ‘extraordinarily high’ recruitment in the HSE
Spending on pay being monitored amid ‘extraordinarily high’ HSE recruitment, says Minister
Government has taken measures to put brakes on outgoings following €577m deficit to the end of July
World Trade Center attack 25 years on; and Gerry Hutch’s son charged following extradition
EU foreign policy chief tells The Irish Times stronger action against Israeli settlements could be warranted
Politicians trying to influence funding of high-cost drugs is a ‘concern’, Minister says
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: TDs and Senators should be aware of need to stabilise national drug approval process
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ‘I worried whether I had the objectivity to be Minister for Health’
Eleven years after her son’s neonatal brain injury at birth, the Minister has met many women going through similar trauma
HSE spending controls have ‘not had sufficient impact’, says Minister
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill says scale of projected HSE overspend ‘cannot be explained by demand pressures alone’
Four HSE regions to lose power over day-to-day spending
Jack Chambers criticises ‘completely ineffective management of the control system’ and ‘really poor performance by certain regions’
HSE apologises to graduate nurses offered jobs at Cork University Hospital ‘in error’
Students, who have been working at CUH, called to meeting this week and told emails sent last month regarding provision of staff roles ‘invalid’
Move to strip four HSE regions of spending powers is a dramatic Government policy shift
Regionalisation of health administration was a key Government reform but within months financial challenges began to emerge
‘Wholly and entirely insufficient’: BAM parent firm criticised over delivery of new children’s hospital
‘Focus, capability, and sufficient resourcing by BAM Ireland’ required, Minister for Health says in letter
Low levels of confidence in Government preparedness for next pandemic, survey finds
About one-third said they personally felt unprepared for a potential lockdown, according to new research
Irish women’s birth stories: ‘Women are so vulnerable when they’re pregnant’
A 10-year strategy aimed at improving maternity experiences in the State is ending. Has it worked? Women who have given birth and those behind the initiative share their views
HSE €580m over-budget at the end of July despite curbs on spending
Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill says increase in productivity needed to tackle budget overruns
Elderly patient in alleged abuse video is not who was originally identified, says HSE
HSE Mid West has met a second family after inquiries found disturbing footage was not filmed in University Hospital Limerick
State-backed lender asked to examine loan schemes for medical graduates and electric vehicles
Newly-qualified doctors would be expected to agree to spend set period working in State under proposal
Patients can now dispose of unused and out-of-date medicines in any pharmacy
MediBack is HSE scheme designed to reduce dangers to public from unwanted medication
Hospital management to meet family of dementia patient following social media video
HSE investigating footage appearing to show healthcare worker calling Ita Tobin (83) ‘crazy’
Good cheer breaks out on Today with David McCullagh. Should we panic?
The normally doleful RTÉ Radio 1 presenter eventually eases back into his customary demeanour as talk turns to hosepipe bans
HSE investigating after video shows dementia patient being ‘disrespected’
Woman was at University Hospital Limerick after suspected heart attack when footage was taken
CUH consultants seek independent staffing assessment over patient safety fears
Minister warned of threat to patient safety following ‘years of underfunding’
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