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Letter to Examiner: Mental health paying price for underfunding of health...
How can Minister Lynch claim she is committed to mental health when mental health services are closing and budgets are being reduced? Also, over the past number of years an annual sum of €35m was set...
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Fears over ‘post code’ cancer services: Paul Kelly
Consultant radiation oncologist Dr Paul Kelly said it would be unforgivable if the units — promised for Cork University Hospital (CUH) and University Hospital Galway (UHG) — fell foul of Health Service...
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Nurses urge minister to halt cuts or wreak havoc
“There is clear evidence that funding reductions, coupled with accelerating demand, have begun to clearly threaten the quality and safety of patient services. The consequences of these quality and...
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New children’s hospital risks being ‘magnet’ for less serious cases, says...
The new national children’s hospital in Dublin risks becoming a “magnet” for less serious cases unless the same standards of care are available in the rest of the country, a conference has heard....
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Doctors warns GP services on brink of collapse
General practice (GP) services are in crisis and on the brink of collapse as resources are cut and workloads increased, doctors warned. The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) accused successive...
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Times editorial: Safeguarding patients
A delay in initiating treatment modalities such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy represents the most fundamental failure of a modern health system. Bland reassurances from the Taoiseach and Minister...
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Martina Devlin: Hospitals’ shame – this is no way to care for our sick and dying
A television set in the ward blaring out a football match. A curtain separating one cubicle from the next, offering the flimsiest semblance of privacy. That soulless scene described by actor Gabriel...
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Longer-term effects of health cuts are unknown but will be profound
The latest OECD report into the health of people in its 34 member countries is especially interesting as it includes data on how health systems have evolved during the economic crisis. Health at a...
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HSE’s 2014 National Service Plan to detail €666m in cuts
The Health Service Executive is due to deliver its 2014 National Service Plan to Minister for Health James Reilly today. The plan covers spending of over €13 billion. It will also detail at least €666...
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HSE homecare package ‘falling apart’, say parents of tracheostomy twins
A Co Kildare couple whose 25-month-old twin sons had tracheostomies in 2011 and came home from hospital last July, fear they will have to bring them back to hospital as the homecare package sanctioned...
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All-island plan for heart surgery
Surgeons from Dublin will see young people during a six-month reprieve for patient care at Belfast’s specialist centre, while a team of American experts consider the future of services for those born...
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Infant (Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research) centre in...
The appropriately named Infant (Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research) centre in Cork is finding new treatments for common conditions in pregnant women and newborn babies. The...
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Epilepsy unit at CUH idle for year despite waiting list
The epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) at Cork University Hospital (CUH) failed to open in 2013, despite a commitment from the HSE that it would open in the third quarter. The HSE conceded yesterday that...
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Eilish O’Regan: Fears of hospital cuts putting patients at risk closer to...
IT’S inevitable that large tracts of the HSE’s National Service Plan, outlining its spending and cuts in 2014, will be a work of fiction. When it comes to budget targets, figures are highly unreliable....
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Examiner editorial: Cystic fibrosis – Lost project to cost lives
Build4Life, founded by Kerryman Joe Browne whose son has the condition, raised €3.5m for CF services at CUH — the largest philanthropic donation in the hospital’s history. Under the agreement,...
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Free care plan ‘to lead to 4m extra visits to GPs’
The Irish Medical Organisation claimed the healthcare system is not structured to cope with such an anticipated increase in GP visits. Research conducted on behalf of the IMO showed there is likely to...
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HSE says it will not be possible to meet all growing demands placed on services
The head of the HSE, Tony O’Brien, has said it will not be possible this year to meet some service priorities. He said these included revamping the dental treatment service, new perinatal pathology...
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Just 11 doctors licensed to treat rural heroin addicts
There are 53 GPs in Dublin trained and authorised to prescribe methadone, but less than a dozen to cater for the rest of the country’s addicts. Doctors also fear the lack of treatment and monitoring of...
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Significant improvement at A&Es, says HSE
Director general Tony O’Brien, during a visit to HSE facilities in Limerick, said overall numbers on trolleys each morning were lower by 34%. While there was an increase over the first few weeks of...
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IMO warns that health service will collapse “from the inside” and patients...
A statement issued by IMO committees representing consultants and non-consultant hospital doctors has blamed Government policy for driving consultants away from the health service. “Consultants are...
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