Health Irish Dental Association sounds alarm over lack of regulationIndustry body warned that access to oral health has been severely curtailed due to ‘insufficient resourcing’
Health HSE told it should have acted on hiring freeze ‘much earlier’ one month before pause came into forceExecutive met with sharp criticisms over spending at tense meeting with department of public expenditure in August
Health Health ‘hung out to dry’ by poor budget forecasting, says IfacHead of the budgetary regulation agency describes failure to accurately predict cost increases and overspends as ‘alarming’
Health Bernard Gloster refutes HSE ‘a bunch of wasters’ with public money Health service boss concedes better structures are needed to oversee spending
Health Health service heads into 2024 from ‘very constrained financial’ place - Bernard GlosterHSE chief executive lays out resourcing strategy for next year amid budget fallout
Business Post's View Editorial: After nearly 20 years, farcical funding of HSE must be addressed Multi-annual budgeting of health is needed or omnishambles of overruns and shortfalls will continue
budget 2024 HSE’s 2024 plan to include ‘built-in deficit’, Bernard Gloster warns HSE chief says funding allocated in Budget 2024 is ‘not adequate’ to support cost of running the health service
budget 2024 Ifac reacts to Budget 2024: 3 key takeawaysBudgetary watchdog clashed with government in lead up to Budget 2024 - with many of its core concerns still standing
Budget 2024 Daniel Murray: Michael McGrath pours cold water on €65bn surpluses but will still splash the cash in Budget 2024 The finance minister will split the pot between core, non-core and a
Health HSE board warns budget deficit of up to €2.2 billion needs to be dealt with “realistically”The scale of the HSE’s funding deficit could reach “€2.2 billion” by the end of this year after the situation worsened over the summer months
Health Around 3,000 couples will be eligible for new state-funded IVF treatment, Donnelly saysThe Health Minister is seeking cabinet approval this week on the eligibility criteria for state funded IVF treatment, which will commence in September this year
Health Donnelly told HSE of ‘critical’ need to manage financial risks three months before deficit emerged Minister for Health wrote to HSE chair Ciarán Devane to express concerns over the risks associated with this year’s health budget as part of the HSE’s National Service Plan
Health Stephen Donnelly looking into banning ‘cynical’ ads for zero alcohol products Minister for Health has asked officials for clarity around the issue, and said he was open to amending legislation if needed to stop the practice
Health Covid advisory group to be scaled back after pandemic emergency declared overGroup has only met once this year, with no further meetings scheduled
Health Watt’s position in question after he rejects report findings, Martin told Tanaiste Micheál Martin also noted that Watt himself has pledged to implement the recommendations of Maura Quinn’s report
Politics Stephen Donnelly says Tánaiste’s chief of staff ‘correct’ over Holohan secondment amid row with Robert WattDeirdre Gillane has become embroiled in a row with Donnelly’s own Secretary General at the Department of Health over claims made by the latter that she was aware of the details around the open-ended secondment
Health Tony O’Brien: GPs are the lynchpin of a workable health systemCommunity-based care is the only way forward for a healthy population in the future, so we urgently need to solve the crisis in general practice
Health 100 legal cases still ‘live’ over nursing home chargesDepartment of Health secretary general says there are between 12 and 20 cases over nursing home charges that could result in further liability to the state
Health Consultants may reject new contract over Saturday workingIHCA to consult members over ‘Donnelly proposal’ for six-day week and longer week-night hours
Health €100m surgical hub plan to take scalpel to waiting listsFive hubs are targeted at high-volume minor surgeries, while health minister also plans three new elective hospitals in Cork