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Hospital staff denied hot meal over shortages
Staff at Cork’s largest hospital can no longer get a hot meal at weekends or out-of-hours as the staff canteen does not have sufficient personnel. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) will...
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Staff in Reilly special unit exempted from pay cuts
Highly paid contractors working for the special delivery unit established by Minister for Health James Reilly are to be exempt from pay cuts to be introduced under the proposed new Croke Park...
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Brendan McCormack warns of nurse shortage in care home sector
Professor Brendan McCormack, president of the All Ireland Gerontological Nurses Association (AIGNA), said the specific skills of nurses in the nursing home sector were under threat, despite their...
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‘Unfairly treated’ Asian doctors to sue
The doctors wrote to the HSE, the department, and the council last month claiming that “discrimination and unlawful treatment has been an ongoing pattern” since they came to work in Ireland in 2011. Dr...
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Shane Considine on hospital care
Doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in this country display dedication and commitment to the care of their patients at all times. If, on occasion, they cannot spend as long as they would...
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Yvonne Ryan on Ann Marie Hourihane’s observations
It is professionally embarrassing for me, to stand in the emergency department at three in the morning and find myself trying to defend the service to the relative of an 80-year-old patient on a...
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Ireland has 50% more nurses than OECD average
Ireland has 50 per cent more nurses per head of population than the OECD average, according to new figures. In 2010, Ireland had an average of 13.1 nurses per 1,000 of the population; the OECD average...
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Has Ireland 50% more nurses than OECD average?
“It is important to note however that the comparability of data on nurses is more limited due to the inclusion of different categories of nurses and midwives in the data reported by different...
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Agency nurses cost HSE €123m
Five firms providing agency workers to the HSE were paid €123m last year — with two sharing an almost €87m payout. According to figures provided by the HSE, one agency, Nurse On Call, nearly doubled...
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Hospital turned away suicidal man
The incident happened last weekend after all admissions to Roscommon acute services had to be cancelled due to a lack of psychiatric nurses. The revelation comes in the wake of recent warnings from...
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HSE overspending threatens recruitment of promised mental health staff
Money set aside this year for the recruitment of hundreds of staff for mental health services is at risk as a result of overspending in the rest of the health sector, unpublished documents show. The...
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Staff cuts mean services in Waterford hospital are suffering
Elective surgery is down to less than half of normal levels at Waterford Regional Hospital (WRH) in recent weeks, while up to 30 inpatient beds remain closed as management do not have the nurses to...
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Consultants say significant scope to cut administrative staffing levels in...
Hospital consultants have said there is significant scope for the Government to reduce the number of administrative and management staff in the health service and to realign funding to frontline and...
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HSE rehired staff keep pension, salaries
NURSES and doctors who are re-hired by the HSE through a private agency will be able to keep their pension and salary. (Independent) > Filed under: Doctors, HSE, Nursing Tagged: Staffing
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Adrian Honan and Marguerite Carter on keeping medical staff in Ireland
Sir, – James Reilly has stated that it is a “perversity” that the best and brightest in Ireland train as doctors and are then “pushed out” of the country. He wonders why this is so (“Reilly to act over...
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More senior medics needed on labour wards ‘to cut cases of cerebral palsy’
Dr Sam Coulter-Smith, master of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, said the incidence of babies with cerebral palsy had not reduced in the past 20 years despite the increase in foetal monitoring and...
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HSE agrees to recruit hundreds of junior doctors
It is understood that under the settlement proposals worked out at the Labour Relations Commission, the HSE has finally agreed to a timescale to implement the maximum working week of 48 hours....
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Brendan McCann on ‘compromised’ clinical care
Emergency department overcrowding causes increased morbidity and mortality for patients. A similar gulf probably exists between the service that Minister for Health Dr James Reilly aspires to for his...
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No cardiac unit has enough staff, study reveals: Irish Heart Foundation
Not one cardiac unit in the country has enough staff to provide an aftercare service to those recovering from heart attacks that is credited with cutting death rates by up to 25%. According to a study...
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Extra healthcare payments evolved over the years
Senior managers in State-funded voluntary hospitals and health agencies – officially known as section 38 organisations – are public servants. However, for years the full remuneration package of senior...
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