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GPs refusing to join care teams
SOME GENERAL practitioners (GPs) around the State are refusing to participate in the introduction of the Government’s primary care strategy in protest at cuts in their fees. HSE national director for...
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Saving lives is not my job says Howlin
Mr Howlin said that media commentary in recent days that lives will be lost or at risk by these staff departures is “shocking.” He said: “I would ask people delivering the services on the frontlines,...
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Children’s hospital site now a ‘political decision’
THE LOCATION of the new national children’s hospital is becoming a political decision rather than a medical one, the master of the Rotunda maternity hospital has warned. With a long-awaited decision on...
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Maeve Sheehan: Political meddling, curse of the health service, is back
In the past few months, Dr Reilly has brought politics right back into the heart of the health service. The Health Service Executive might be a bureaucratic, money-sucking monster. But one of its...
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Politics, not patients, the key influence in choosing hospital site
One would have thought it important enough that the whole country should have a say on where it’s located and to make sure that the interests of children are properly served. (Independent) > Filed...
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Shortall accused Reilly over second list
Separate from her concerns about the list of projects to be developed using public private partnerships (PPPs), Ms Shortall accused the Minister of disregarding the ranking drawn up with HSE officials...
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Reilly ‘dismantling’ health service
Former minister of state Roísín Shortall launched a blistering attack on Minister for Health James Reilly, claiming he was going to “completely dismantle our public health service and send it into...
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James Reilly accused of waiting list ‘con trick’
Minister for Health James Reilly has been accused of “massaging figures” and perpetrating a “con trick” on “rocketing” hospital waiting lists. Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin made the claim in the...
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Alex White: No U-turn on free GP care from this administration
The Cabinet committee on health … agreed I should rework the proposal and come up with a better option for phasing in free GP care. This could involve, for example, starting with people in a certain...
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William Behan on policy involvement for GPs
I would be interested in government health policy if I thought it had any significant merits and if it appreciated the essence of general practice. However, the more I look, the more it appears to...
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