Records show financial crisis facing disability care provider had been building for years
Robert Watt
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
Report due to be considered by three party leaders before Cabinet discussion
EU funding for Irish patients getting treatment abroad falls by half, according to report
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
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