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That is the common reply, when many politicians ask about who may be the next Minister for Health. The portfolio is seen as a nightmare, potentially career ending and infamously once likened by the former Health Minister Brian Cowen to Angola, full of unexploded landmines ! There will be a Cabinet reshuffle in December and…
There is a little bit of good news on hospital waiting lists. New figures show that the national total fell by 11,200 patients last month. However, that’s the best of it because there are still over 841,000 patients waiting for treatment, or to be seen at an outpatient clinic for the first time to be…
ew figures show that there are over 288,500 people on outpatient waiting lists at Dublin hospitals. This is an increase of 9,500 this year alone. The data from the Irish Hospital Consultants Association shows that the number of patients waiting longer than a year for hospital treatment has risen by 18% since 2015. The group…
The Irish health service has published its Winter Plan for the coming six months. It hopes extra beds and some other measures will help cut public waiting lists. What a dull read it is, lots of lovely words on the 55 pages, mostly bureaucracy speak. The document for example talks about ‘Bespoke Integrated Priorities’. Who…
The Irish health service has published its Winter Plan for the coming six months. It hopes extra beds and some other measures will help cut public waiting lists. What a dull read it is, lots of lovely words on the 55 pages, mostly bureaucracy speak. The document for example talks about ‘Bespoke Integrated Priorities’. Who…
The Government has admitted that meeting its 2022 waiting list targets is “challenging”. That’s one word for it. They have tried to partially blame Covid-19. The admission came during a Budget 2023 briefing by the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly. To try and get some handle on hospital waiting lists, the Government will spend €440…
The leading opposition party in Ireland has published an alternative Budget 2023 plan, to cut waiting lists and improve healthcare. It would see an extra €1.1 billion go into the health system next year. Sinn Fein is currently leading the polls at 36% in a trend it has held for a long period of time,…
The Government has admitted that meeting its 2022 waiting list targets is “challenging”. That’s one word for it. They have tried to partially blame Covid-19. The admission came during a Budget 2023 briefing by the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly. To try and get some handle on hospital waiting lists, the Government will spend €440…
Irish people remain very wary of giving up their private health insurance, latest figures show. They are fearful of having to rely on the public system given the very long hospital waiting lists. Despite the impact of Covid-19 and employment levels, there has been a rise in people taking out private health insurance. In Ireland,…
Hospital waiting lists in Ireland continue to deteriorate. Latest figures just published show that there were 857,290 people waiting in August for some kind of acute hospital care. By far the biggest list within the overall figures are those waiting to be seen, for the first time, by a consultant at an outpatient clinic. That…
