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‘I was shocked by it because of the spin beforehand’: How a healthcare worker, engineer and student view Budget 2027
Student says budget lacks any ‘meaningful’ action to resolve accommodation crisis and fails to protect students from fare increases
Campaigners to make case for re-establishing stem cell laboratory in Cork
Lab would increase national capacity to treat cancers and save patients and families long journeys to Dublin or Galway
HIV Ireland quit HSE programme due to ‘slagging’ and claims of corruption, WRC told
Charity defends complaint of whistleblower penalisation brought by veteran manager accused of bullying
‘I decided to take a leap of faith’: Largest ever number of GPs graduate
Largest ever graduation of GPs, as State moves to increase numbers to meet demand
Delay of children’s hospital would ‘impose considerable additional costs’, Minister warns
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill issued warning to contractor earlier this year over continued delays
‘State bodies need to know they are being watched’: Government TD launches public spending site
Backbencher wants to create ‘panopticon’ for State entities and says Taoiseach approves
If we’re going to listen to women, we need to listen to all women
The three-day wait protects the essential time needed in a way that voluntary waiting periods do not
Budget talks enter ‘banging fists on the table’ phase – metaphorically at least
Inside Politics: Meanwhile, Brexit is back and the Drumcree stand-off continues
‘Literally unbelievable’: Ministers get ‘a kicking’ from Chambers’s team as budget talks near end
Jack Chambers fights to meet 6 per cent limit on increases, with Ministers complaining bitterly
OPW paid large Revenue settlement over renting properties to staff at below market rates
C&AG report also shows ‘loss of value’ from Defence Forces’ purchase of armoured vehicle fleet
CervicalCheck claims cost State nearly €19m – C&AG report
Figures include €6.6m in damages paid to people who took legal action over 2018 smear test scandal
Removing three-day wait would lead to rise in ‘already massive’ number of abortions, GP says
Dr Kirsten Fuller claims the ‘majority’ of GPs don’t agree that abortion is a form of healthcare
Minister for Health stands over Cork University Hospital safety and staffing levels
Hospital chief executive had said she did not believe it safe to enter winter ‘with the level of staffing uncertainty that currently exists’.
HSE financial ‘imbalance’ at start of year contributed to problems, says chief executive
Anne O’Connor tells staff substantial savings planned for 2025 not delivered and then carried into this year
‘Why I breastfed my fourth baby after bottle-feeding the others’
One in two babies still get breast milk at three months old, as rates rise slowly
Government to authorise new funding as €700m agreed in April runs out
Ministers told no longer sufficient funds to pay for measures agreed by Ministers over recent months
The budget is now like a children’s party, with a prize for everyone
It may be some time before the ‘winners’ realise that the budget goodies were a costly mistake
Inside Budget 2027: ‘The meeting was brutal’ - the tensions on the road to new spending package
In 10 days Simon Harris and Jack Chambers will present their budget – in Government back rooms the horse-trading with fellow Ministers is in full swing
HSE spending approval plan neatly illustrates why its budget control is in such a mess
The chief executive will be signing such orders nonstop and doing little else for a salary of €406,000
Nation ‘sleepwalking into biggest social and healthcare challenge’, nursing homes warn
Sector braces for scale-up to meet demand for places, but funding challenges stand in way
Financial deficit in health service could hit €1bn, Dáil Public Accounts Committee hears
Scrapping private practice in public hospitals to cost HSE €140m
Male victims ‘likely to underreport’ sexual violence, says head of Cork centre
New head of Sexual Violence Centre Cork stresses service is for both men and women
Health service to have ‘significant deficit’ at end of year, HSE to tell PAC
Gap between funded service levels and real cost of delivery now ‘increasingly structural’, TDs to hear
Irish hospitals appointing non-EU doctors without police clearance
HSE internal audit warns of potential patient safety and reputational risks
Three-day abortion wait hits women in ‘straitened circumstances’ hardest, HSE says
HSE experts also told TDs there is ‘overwhelming evidence’ against mandatory waiting periods
Patients would contribute more for drugs under proposed policy
New recruitment and spending restrictions to be introduced in health service in coming days amid Government concern at €700m overrun
Oireachtas committee to hear no clinical reason for retaining three-day abortion wait
Opportunity for reflection should be available but not imposed, HSE clinical director to tell politicians
Inpatient hospital treatment rises just 2% despite 52% spending increase, data shows
Analysis leads Minister for Health to criticise hospitals unable to explain ‘consistently’ poor trolley figures
‘This gas can have long-term impacts on children’: 130% rise in treatment for nitrous oxide abuse
Abuse of the gas can lead to permanent spinal cord and nerve damage
The Irish Times view on health spending: a politically toxic challenge
Bringing the budget back on course will require difficult decisions
Schoolgirl seeks to raise awareness of sepsis after losing her hands and feet to infection
Almost 12,000 cases of sepsis and septic shock recorded in Irish hospitals last year, with death rate standing at 21.2%
Minister for Health defends Saturday hospital unit that treated five patients in 12 weeks
Consultants helped tackle surging inpatient numbers, too, during pilot project, which was ‘not real test’ of system
Overspending health regions to be asked to slow hiring after headcount surge
Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said there had been ‘extraordinarily high’ recruitment in the HSE
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