HSE

HSE internal auditors have warned that greater controls need to be put in place in the appointment of management posts in the health service to avoid (...)

There will be more people on waiting lists for longer periods as health services are reintroduced in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Health Ser(...)

One further death of a person with Covid-19 has been reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), while there have been a further 17 (...)

There were some “avoidable” cases in which healthcare workers may have become infected with Covid-19, the HSE has said. In a new submission to the Oi(...)

The State’s health service watchdog twice queried the HSE’s decision to allow coronavirus-infected residents share rooms with non-Covid residents at a(...)

The €100 million a month deal that saw the State take over nearly 20 private hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic was entered into without having “t(...)

There was no discrimination against the private nursing home sector by the health service as the Covid-19 pandemic emerged, the secretary general of t(...)

When the coronavirus pandemic struck, Finbarr Kenny was always going to find himself at the coalface. As governments were thrashing about for answers(...)

Nurses have demanded the establishment of a rapid, independent inquiry into the high levels of coronavirus infection among healthcare workers. The Ir(...)

Hundreds of thousands of people covered by health insurance will once again be in a position to be treated in private hospitals from the beginning of (...)