The HSE has confirmed that getting doctors to perform abortions is a significant issue causing delay in rolling out abortion provision in Ireland. CEO of the health service, Paul Reid, said that as of August this year, nine maternity units were not performing abortions while ten hospitals were. “There are issues with regard to the geographic […]
A 13-year old boy with a diagnosis of autism and a history of violent and aggressive behaviour has been stuck in Temple Street Children’s Hospital for almost seven months, because the HSE is refusing to fund a residential care place available for him. Daniel Hurley’s distraught parents say that keeping their child in Temple Street […]
I was trying to think this morning what this was like, and it occurred to me that the thing it’s most like is when the players on a Premier Division Football team let it know that they have lost confidence in the Manager. “He’s lost the dressing room”, the pundits would declare, and a sacking […]
Former head of the GPs Association, Dr Maitiú Ó Tuathail, predicted that it was going to be a “bad winter”, because Emergency Departments and ICUs in Irish hospitals were already at capacity.
An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, has claimed that one of the reasons we have overruns in the health service is down to what he described as a “recruitment surge rather than the recruitment crisis.” The Taoiseach also maintained that overspending can be attributed to the fact “that extra people are hired every year beyond what is […]