Private Hospitals Association
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Sláintecare must not be sacrificed at the altar of Irish politics
- Opinion
- August 18, 2018, 05:00
No sooner was the Sláintecare implementation plan published when it started. The nurses said it would all collapse if the issue of their “inadequate p(...)

Private hospitals make emergency care offer
- Health
- February 20, 2018, 00:01
Private hospitals have said they will invest in staff and facilities to accommodate patients with health insurance who are currently seen in public ho(...)

HSE says current prevalence of two strains of flu is unusual
- Health
- January 9, 2018, 17:00
The HSE has said the current prevalence of both A and B flu viruses is “unusual”, and that this had only happened three times in the last 20 years. (...)

Waiting list for hospital treatments up to almost 685,000 patients
- Irish News
- November 8, 2017, 22:03
Hospital waiting list numbers rose again nationally in October by about 6,000, or almost 1 per cent, to 684,800. While the overall number rose, there(...)

Almost 680,000 on public hospital waiting lists, latest figures show
- Health
- October 6, 2017, 20:40
Almost 680,000 people remain on public hospital waiting lists for various procedures, according to the latest published figures. By the end of Septem(...)

More than 570,000 on public hospital waiting lists
- Health
- July 7, 2017, 21:18
The number of people on public hospital waiting lists increased by some 6,000 in June, with more than 570,000 people awaiting treatment at the end of (...)

Health insurance set to jump €600 per person over 10 years
- Health
- June 20, 2017, 20:43
Average health insurance premiums are set to jump by at least €600 per person over the next decade due to increased claims from an ageing population, (...)

New law to bring private hospitals under remit of Hiqa
- Health
- June 20, 2017, 12:49
Legislation giving the State’s health watchdog the power to investigate incidents in private healthcare will be brought to Cabinet in the autumn, Mini(...)

Healthcare report ‘bogged down in ideology’, say private hospitals
- Health
- May 30, 2017, 20:29
The €5.8 billion healthcare plan proposed by the Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Healthcare appears to have become “bogged down in ideology”, th(...)

Why we should privatise the VHI
- Opinion
- May 8, 2017, 01:45
Not for the first time Irish healthcare is in a complex place: massive numbers of people on trolleys in public hospitals, the biggest number ever in t(...)