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
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
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’
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’
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’
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’
New figures show thousands of people not getting timely access to cancer care, TD says
Sinn Féin’s David Cullinane says figures released to him indicate areas ‘going in the wrong direction’
HSE agrees to fund drug for patients with Friedreich’s ataxia
Omaveloxolone, branded as Skyclarys, has been approved in US and Europe for treatment of disease
More than 600 extra university places to train nurses, doctors and other key medics
Record expansion to be announced of third-level healthcare places to meet growing demand for services
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