Health People ‘frightened’ by long wait times are avoiding Irish emergency departmentsMany patients expect significant delays at their local hospital
Health Senior medic says HSE needs 2,000 extra hospital beds to cope with overcrowding crisisMatthew Sadlier, a senior figure in the Irish Medical Organisation, said a lack of capacity is the central issue for the struggling health service
Health University Hospital Limerick seeks to build 96-bed blockHospital is also recruiting emergency department staff and patient flow coordinators to ease overcrowding
Government rejects cost of living proposal to abolish all hospital chargesFees to be cut for under-16s, at a cost of €3.4 million, as part of Sláintecare plans to reform of health service
The Ministry of Bodies: Looking back in anger at medical misbehaviourSeamus O’Mahony’s memoir of working life at Cork University Hospital is a fascinating mix of contrariness, despair and resignation
HSE’s latest private hospitals Covid deal estimated to cost €47 million a monthHSE considers ending surge capacity arrangements with private hospitals as number of Covid-19 hospitalisations falls
Analysis: This may prove to be Ireland’s deadliest week of the pandemicDaily deaths in Ireland have reached a record high but falling infection rates and increased vaccination give some cause for optimism
Beacon Hospital signs Covid-19 surge capacity deal with HSEThe only private hospital in the state to have rejected deal has now agreed to provide beds to public health system during crisis
Analysis: Hospitals running out of ICU beds as surge capacity expandedCrisis in critical care continues as number of Covid-19 cases has begun to fall
HSE plan to utilise private hospitals could be triggered within daysMinisters discuss early vaccination of the country’s 60,000 Leaving Cert students, while physiotherapists and occupational therapists ‘stand ready’ to help as Covid-19 vaccinators
Almost 90,000 ‘did not waits’ left A&E before treatment in 2019Many people who would be better served by GPs, pharmacists and minor injury units turn up in A&E instead, says the HSE
