Making sure your paperwork is all in order for your healthcare abroad is important. Healthcare Abroad will assist and guide you through the process to make sure everything is in order for the HSE to approve your surgery now. There are rules about accessing care under the cross border directive and the HSE will need…

Where you live in Ireland can be something of a postcode lottery when it comes to health. The bigger cities are well served with major hospitals but they also have big waiting lists too, due to the size of the surrounding population. Elsewhere in the country, there is a shortage of specialists or services meaning…

Why is it that in Ireland, there are such massive problems and delays in building new public hospital projects? There has been no new major acute hospital built in Ireland in over 30 years, if one excludes the €75 m Cork University Maternity Hospital which opened in 2007. Before that, the last new acute hospital…

While the Covid-19 pandemic has receded and life has returned mostly to normal, it has left a lasting legacy. A big part of that legacy is of course the impact on the Irish health system and even longer public hospital waiting lists. Before the pandemic, in February 2020, hospital waiting lists in Ireland were at…

New public hospital waiting lists have just been released for Ireland and wait for it – the number of people on waiting lists fell by over 200 last month. You read it here first. Yes, that’s right 200. What an achievement! The April waiting lists from the National Treatment Purchase Fund show there are 850,109…