Calorie labels on online fast food menus seen as means to reduce future pressures on health service
Department of Health research unit also recommends increasing hospital activity by changing the default to day case rather than inpatient treatment
Department of Health research unit also recommends increasing hospital activity by changing the default to day case rather than inpatient treatment
Numbers in management and administrative grades have grown by a third in recent years, DPER warned Department of Health
Fórsa’s Kevin Callinan highly critical of comments by Department of Health secretary general
Robert Watt says about 75 per cent of budgetary overspend was in acute hospital sector
Records show financial crisis facing disability care provider had been building for years
Spending on acute hospitals has increased 80 per cent in the past seven years; spending on health services pay has risen by €3.2 billion in the same period
Irish health spending is high as a proportion of national income, Dr Douglas Sutherland tells conference
Robert Watt, secretary general of the Department of Health, says productivity gains are needed in health service
Tensions have bubbled up inside - and outside - Government and among senior civil servants in the fallout from a new budget that did not budget for massive health spending overruns
Budget allocation will have ‘catastrophic implications’ for patients and those who work on the front line of health service, says Sinn Féin
State’s former chief medical officer sharply critical in memoir of leaks from report into the controversial proposed move
Department approved €282,900 to sponsor RTÉ weight loss programme
EU funding for Irish patients getting treatment abroad falls by half, according to report
Report due to be considered by three party leaders before Cabinet discussion
Irish Life Health has expressed concerns about the impact of plans to amend regulations for minimum health insurance benefits.
Health committee also hears of plans to set up new medical school in capital operated by TU Dublin which is being looked at ‘very favourably’
Department of Health secretary Robert Watt also uses letter to HSE chief to raise concern about modernisation initiative
Maura Quinn tells Oireachtas finance committee she has ‘nothing further to add’ on the controversy
Leo Varadkar claims the public doesn’t care about Robert Watt and his controversies, which is most convenient for the upper echelon of the Civil Service
Gerard Howlin: As any other civil servant could have told him, if you can fake sincerity, you’ve got it made
Tensions over Tony Holohan's planned job at TCD were laid bare during a bad-tempered week in Leinster House
Oireachtas committee members were ‘shocked’ after a fractious session with Department of Health secretary general Robert Watt
Tánaiste defends secretary general in Dáil after criticism by Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns
Department of Health official Robert Watt defended botched plan to appoint Tony Holohan to academic role
Further scrutiny of Dr Tony Holohan’s botched secondment expected
Watt never intended to come across as dismissive, cocky, combative and arrogant at the Oireachtas finance committee but unfortunately for him he did
Department of Health secretary general disputed many key findings of report into botched secondment of former chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan to TCD
Account given by Deirdre Gillane in report about secondment controversy was ‘correct’ version of events, says Minister for Health
Watt strongly objected to conclusions regarding politicians not being informed, report shows
Department of Health’s top civil servant to make appearance at Oireachtas Committee on Wednesday
Long-delayed Department of Health report strongly critical of appointment process last year
Report into proposed secondment does not contain any adverse findings against former chief medical officer but identifies issues with structure of process
Robert Watt says there are about 200 legal claims outstanding over historical private nursing home charges
Robert Watt expected to blame Covid-19 and worldwide shortage of health workers for situation
Social Democrats co-leader calls for a special sitting of the Oireachtas health committee
Department yet to publish report on abandoned TCD appointment despite fact it was submitted last July
Minister for Health to address IHCA conference on Saturday as talks on new public-only contract reach crux
Robert Watt says ‘step change’ is needed to double number of medical and nursing graduates
Lack of order in health, long hours and organisational stasis accelerating brain drain
‘Careful reflection’ on new Covid-19 book will help to learn lessons, says Nphet modeller
Committee examining plan for Dr Holohan to move to new role at Trinity College
Secretary general and chief medical officer to appear before Oireachtas committee
Key Irish figures recall the fear and uncertainty of the pandemic’s early days
Allegation of ‘misleading commentary’ put to Dáil over bid to secure mandarin’s appearance
Pursuit of Robert Watt has touch of ‘witch hunt’ about it, warns Taoiseach
Finance committee asks top civil servant for documents relating to TCD appointment
Country’s top civil servant also indicates he did not discuss the proposal with Taoiseach
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly says Quinn will report back to him in June
Board issues clarifying statement following release of Robert Watt briefing note on issue
The circumstances of Tony Holohan’s move demanded careful political handling
For an administration faced with enormous challenges, the Coalition has quite a knack of creating unnecessary problems for itself
Varadkar says he had ‘assumed’ CMO applied for professor role in Trinity College Dublin
Action plan to reduce healthcare waiting lists by 18 per cent was launched five weeks ago
Department of Health official 'worried' about regionalisation process, report says
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