Susan Mitchell

Susan Mitchell

Susan Mitchell is Health Editor of The Sunday Business Post. A native of Dublin, Mitchell has won numerous awards for her coverage of Ireland’s healthcare system. Her stories have led to several national policy changes. Mitchell holds a BA from UCD and a postgraduate diploma in business studies from the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.

Probe into NHI order to ‘delete’ notes on meeting

Probe into NHI order to ‘delete’ notes on meeting

The files relate to a meeting that is now the subject of a probe by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.

Ataxia charity directors distance themselves from judicial review

Ataxia charity directors distance themselves from judicial review

Chief executive Barbara Flynn made an application for a judicial review in an effort to quash the findings contained in a highly critical report by the Charities Regulator

Sick of broken promises

Sick of broken promises

With rising waiting lists and mounting medical negligence claims, this government has little to show for its tenure presiding over the health system

Court may force MEPs to disclose expenses details

Court may force MEPs to disclose expenses details

A team of journalists requested four years of copies of spending records of MEPs representing their own countries

Nursing homes told to ‘delete and destroy’ documents

Nursing homes told to ‘delete and destroy’ documents

Meeting is now the subject of a probe by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission

Big Pharma hits back at watchdog

Big Pharma hits back at watchdog

NCPE expert said 95 per cent of new cancer drugs were bad value

Health service attempts cultural shift

Health service attempts cultural shift

The HSE wants to clean up its working culture, and has begun by implementing a new programme called Values in Action. Susan Mitchell reports

Rónán Mullen’s cynicism does his cause no favours

Rónán Mullen’s cynicism does his cause no favours

Mullen’s comments on Savita Halappanavar are irrelevant to the dilemmas and crises faced by obstetricians

TDs call on Mullen to apologise and retract his Savita remarks

TDs call on Mullen to apologise and retract his Savita remarks

‘If there was abortion on demand . . . she wouldn’t have been pregnant,’ senator told RTÉ

Simon Harris slams Mugabe’s WHO role

Simon Harris slams Mugabe’s WHO role

Harris told this newspaper he would write to WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to highlight his concerns

Watchdog says expensive cancer drugs not delivering

Watchdog says expensive cancer drugs not delivering

Value for money criteria met by only one of 20 new drugs that had an initial asking price of €500 million

‘I’ve never felt like a stranger in Ireland’

‘I’ve never felt like a stranger in Ireland’

In a follow-up to last week’s interview, Ibrahim Halawa’s father Hussein holds forth on fatwas, radicalisation and running Ireland’s largest mosque

Hospital licensing needed for patient safety, Hiqa warns

Hospital licensing needed for patient safety, Hiqa warns

Status quo 'not a viable option', says Hiqa, adding that its chief executive Phelim Quinn had raised the issue 'several times' with the minister and his predecessors

Medicines boss: Costly new cancer drugs not working

Medicines boss: Costly new cancer drugs not working

Just one in 20 new cancer drugs assessed for the Irish market since the beginning of 2016 were considered value for money, according to a new assessment by the NCPE

Ireland's leading imam on fatwas, feminism and his son Ibrahim Halawa

Ireland's leading imam on fatwas, feminism and his son Ibrahim Halawa

Imam Hussein Halawa speaks about sharia law, women’s rights, Islamic extremism and life as head of the biggest mosque in Ireland