HSE
HSE reviews visitor ban and serial testing in nursing homes
With most staff and residents vaccinated, the health service is expected to make new proposals to Nphet for this sector
HSE’s latest private hospitals Covid deal estimated to cost €47 million a month
HSE considers ending surge capacity arrangements with private hospitals as number of Covid-19 hospitalisations falls
Breakdown of HSE’s €1.6 billion war chest to fight Covid-19
The National Service Plan shows that €200m of the €1.6bn allocated to fighting the pandemic is to be spent on the rollout of vaccinations
Susan O’Keeffe: If we want health service reform, we must listen to frontline workers
The Covid-19 crisis has laid bare the many shortcomings in our health service, but it’s those at the coalface who understand best what is needed to fix it
Fewer GP surgeries will be able to offer vaccination to over-70s
Tánaiste says rollout to older people will be slower following recommendation that Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, rather than AstraZeneca, should be used for this group
Analysis: High Covid-19 death numbers likely to continue until middle of February
New cases and hospitalisations are falling, but the alarming mortality figures are set to continue for the coming days
Number of Covid-19 cases caused by foreign travel is likely far higher than Government claims
Way in which new infections are counted could lead to a considerable under-reporting of imported cases
Analysis: Daily Covid cases could drop below 50 by March 5 if current rate continues
Our 14-day incidence has halved in the past ten days and numbers being admitted to ICU has started to slow
Have health authorities dropped the ball on airborne transmission of Covid-19?
Many scientists believe indoor aerosol transmission may explain why so many people picked up the virus over the Christmas period, so why is there so little focus on the importance of ventilation?
Vaccine rollout gathers pace but no quick fix yet
In spite of some initial hiccups, the programme is up and running but the advice is to ‘hold firm’ until herd immunity is established
Susan O’Keeffe: Vaccination programme needs to be treated as a national emergency
Poor planning has beset Ireland’s fight against Covid-19 from the start, and we are still lacking
‘I am nursing a very long time. I never thought I would see anything like this’
GPs are the first line of defence in a health system that’s doing its best to keep Covid in check. But the past week has seen positivity rates of 40 per cent to 50 per cent in communities, putting every stage of that same system under enormous pressure
Covid cases jumped after festive contacts surge - HSE
Contact tracers say many people testing positive over the holiday season cited 20 to 35 close contacts
Comment: Vaccination numbers don’t add up – we’ll be living and dying with Covid-19 until 2022
Ireland needs to be vaccinating upwards of 100,000 people a week but we show no signs of getting close to that figure
HSE to tighten track and trace in face of Covid-19 surge
Tracers are being urged to speed up calls to work through the huge backlog
Move to generic arthritis drugs saves state €35m in a year
Gainshare initiative provided an incentive for hospitals to switch to biosimilar medicines as soon as originals had gone off patent
Almost 90,000 ‘did not waits’ left A&E before treatment in 2019
Many people who would be better served by GPs, pharmacists and minor injury units turn up in A&E instead, says the HSE
First vaccines to be given in nursing homes this week
An initial shipment of 9,750 vaccines arrived into the country on Saturday while a further 40,000 vaccines are to arrive weekly throughout January and February