New curbs on HSE recruitment to be introduced
Confidential memo by HSE chief Tony O’Brien warns rate of hiring cannot continue (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - February 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Growing waiting lists put pressure on Varadkar
Number of outpatients enduring long waits for appointments jumps almost 40% (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - February 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Outpatient delays up by 40% despite Varadkar promise
January sees significant rise in the number enduring long waits for appointments (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - February 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nurses vote in favour of plan to tackle A&E overcrowding
INMO members support proposal agreed in bid to avert strikes in emergency units (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - February 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
HSE apologises to patient over delay in investigation
Psychiatrist crossed personal boundaries when treating patient, report finds (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - February 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Northern Ireland has highest suicide rate in UK
No obvious trends in rate in North but number of suicides in 2014 down on previous year (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - February 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
GPs in training only enough for services to ‘stand still’
Doctors’ group asks for more resources as Fine Gael drops universal free care policy (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - February 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
More than 900 get cancer from alcohol each year, HSE warns
Consultant Marie Laffoy says 12% of breast cancer cases are linked to drinking alcohol (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - February 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New talks aim to diffuse union row over A&E proposals
Siptu, IMO ‘excluded’ from health management meetings on hospital overcrowding (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - February 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New talks aim to defuse union row over A&E proposals
Siptu, IMO ‘excluded’ from health management meetings on hospital overcrowding (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - February 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Benefits secured by nurses’ union may be extended to other hospital staff
New talks seek to defuse row between unions over A&E proposals (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - February 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Woman (93) spends 20 hours on a trolley in St James’s Hospital
Margaret Fagan was left on a trolley in A&E after being diagnosed with pneumonia (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - February 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Zika: Two Irish residents who caught virus ‘fully recovered’
HSE says cases in man and woman who returned from affected area ‘not unexpected’ (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - February 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Only one in four health service staff is vaccinated for flu
Uptake as low as 7% in some hospitals while four facilities had zero staff vaccinations (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - February 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
First case in Ireland of Zika virus confirmed, say sources
Details of location of individual diagnosed with illness so far unclear (Source: The Irish Times - Health)
Source: The Irish Times - Health - February 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
