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May

The positive impact AI can have on our healthcare

May 31, 2023
Much concern has been raised recently on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) may pose a threat to humanity. Of course there are genuine concerns with this new technology. But what about the positive impact it may have on our healthcare?
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17
Apr

The Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly has been insisting recently that hospital waiting lists for treatment are on the decline but the statistics do not really bear that out.

April 17, 2023
The Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly has been insisting recently that hospital waiting lists for treatment are on the decline but the statistics do not really bear that out. There has been a small fall in the numbers but really just in the order of a few hundred patients. The overall picture remains gloomy.
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04
Apr

Beds, beds, beds – it’s not rocket science.

April 4, 2023
One of the big reasons why Ireland has such long hospital waiting lists, is a basic shortage of hospital beds. Now we have the proof, in a new study from the Economic Social & Research Institute. It says that there may be a bed capacity shortfall of around 1,000 inpatient beds in public acute hospitals.
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24
Mar

Ireland has published the first examination of the factors affecting patients getting onto public hospital waiting lists and getting off waiting lists.

March 24, 2023
Ireland has published the first examination of the factors affecting patients getting onto public hospital waiting lists and getting off waiting lists. It says that the public hospital system here prioritises access to specialised care, based on need and not on ability to pay and because of this, waiting lists exist. Not surprisingly, waiting lists...
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13
Feb

It’s a bad start to the year on national public hospital waiting lists

February 13, 2023
As predicted here recently, the crazy hospital overcrowding in December and January plus some other factors like a bad flu season, took a lot of beds out of the system that would otherwise have been available for planned operations. The new waiting list figures for January put the number of patients waiting in Ireland at...
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16
Jan

The Irish health service has missed its target to cut waiting lists by 18% last year

January 16, 2023
The Irish health service has missed its target to cut waiting lists by 18% last year. The HSE only managed to reduce waiting lists by 4% so it was way off target. That’s despite a €350 m waiting list plan.
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06
Jan

Public hospital waiting lists look set to take a big hit over the coming weeks in Ireland

January 6, 2023
Public hospital waiting lists look set to take a big hit over the coming weeks in Ireland, with record hospital overcrowding recorded. On Tuesday January 3 last, there were 931 patients on trolleys in hospital emergency departments or on wards, waiting to be admitted to a bed. The previous highest record was 760 patients on...
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22
Dec

A major report about waiting lists on the Irish health system has been published by OECD

December 22, 2022
A major report on the Irish health system has been published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It has a fascinating chapter on waiting lists here. It says that waiting list measures, based on the number of patients registered at a certain point in time may be unreliable gauges of pressures on...
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28
Nov

There was a little bit of good news for people on public hospital waiting lists

November 28, 2022
RTE News reported on an internal briefing paper from the Department of Health it got its hands on. The document said that while overall hospital waiting list numbers have remained broadly constant, year to date long waiters have been falling significantly across all targets. The document apparently says that countries across Europe are reporting increased...
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21
Nov

Who the F… wants health?

November 21, 2022
That is the common reply, when many politicians ask about who may be the next Minister for Health. The portfolio is seen as a nightmare, potentially career ending and infamously once likened by the former Health Minister Brian Cowen to Angola, full of unexploded landmines ! There will be a Cabinet reshuffle in December and...
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The Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly has been insisting recently that hospital waiting lists for treatment are on the decline but the statistics do not really bear that out.
April 17, 2023
Beds, beds, beds – it’s not rocket science.
April 4, 2023
Ireland has published the first examination of the factors affecting patients getting onto public hospital waiting lists and getting off waiting lists.
March 24, 2023