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SIPTU's Paul Bell says his members are entitled to have their pay restored

Section 39 strike deferred to allow for talks at WRC

SIPTU has deferred next Tuesday's threatened strike by workers in so-called Section 39 health and social care bodies to allow for talks at the Workplace Relations Commission.

News • 14 Sep 18

The review said greater expertise should be deployed across the screening services

The 50 recommendations of the Scally Review

CervicalCheck • 12 Sep 18

The HSE said that negotiations have been ongoing for weeks over the extension of the current contracts with the labs

HSE talks with CervicalCheck labs at 'critical stage'

The HSE has said that negotiations are at a "critical stage" with laboratories which provide screening for the national CervicalCheck programme.

Health • 10 Sep 18

The HSE said it is spending around €1.4 million a week on agency nursing

Hospitals dependent on non-EU nurses, INMO claims

Irish hospitals are totally dependent on nurses from non-EU countries, according to the General Secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

Health • 10 Sep 18

Ambulance crews belonging to the PNA voted overwhelmingly to back industrial action

Ambulance crews back industrial action in HSE dispute

Ambulance personnel belonging to the Psychiatric Nurses Association have voted overwhelmingly to back industrial action in a dispute over negotiating rights and deduction of union subscriptions.

Health • 05 Sep 18

The HSE reduced funding allocations to Section 39 bodies during the economic crisis

Pay restoration call for workers in HSE-funded bodies

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has urged the Government to immediately restore the pay of workers in HSE-funded bodies whose pay was cut in line with public servants during the economic crisis.

Ireland • 03 Sep 18

Sources suggest that the figure may have been between 150,000-200,000

OPW and gardaí decline to put figure on Mass attendance

Two official bodies have declined to put an exact figure on the number of people who attended the mass by Pope Francis in the Phoenix Park yesterday.

Pope Francis In Ireland • 27 Aug 18

The Mental Health Commission cited a series of shortcomings in the HSE-run services

Mental health watchdog highlights 'unsafe' HSE services

The mental health services' watchdog has warned that State provision in the area will continue to be unsafe and substandard unless the Government and the Health Service Executive begin a process of major change.

Health • 25 Jul 18

The HSE said three children were diagnosed with serious gastroenteritis last week, with four more cases this week

E. coli outbreak leads to closure of Galway creche

An outbreak of E. coli has led to the closure of a crèche in north Co Galway.

News • 18 Jul 18

Charlie's parents, Anthony and Caitriona Enright leaving the High Court

Boy settles birth injury case for €17.2m

A four-year-old boy who suffered a catastrophic brain injury at birth has settled his case against the HSE for a final payment of €15.5m.

News • 06 Jul 18

Liam Woods told an Oireachtas committee that the lack of sufficient isolation facilities is a challenge for most hospitals

HSE reports rise in emergency department attendances

The HSE has said that the total number of emergency department attendances has increased each year, while bed capacity has remained largely unchanged.

Health • 04 Jul 18

HIQA had threatened to close the facility on the Cherry Orchard Hospital campus

HIQA finds serious breaches at HSE-run facility

HIQA has found that a HSE-run facility for people with disabilities could provide no written evidence that residents or their families had been consulted before it decided not to medically resuscitate three residents.

Health • 04 Jul 18

The minimum total insurance cover for each claim was set at €22.6m

State indemnified against costs over screening errors

The contract agreed in 2012 between the HSE National Cancer Screening Programme and US laboratory Quest Diagnostics required it to indemnify the State against all costs and claims arising out of any error.

CervicalCheck • 18 Jun 18

There is a further audit of 46 cases, of which 12 are close to completion

Harris commits to cervical commission by September

The Minister for Health has said he wants to establish an independent commission of inquiry to examine the CervicalCheck controversy in September.

CervicalCheck • 14 Jun 18

The HSE offered parents the opportunity to have their children's hearing reassessed.

900 recalled for audiology tests in southeast

The Health Service Executive has confirmed more than 900 people are being recalled for hearing assessments in the southeast.

Ireland • 13 Jul 18

Consultants are making a breach of contract claim that could cost the State up to €700m

HSE to challenge levels of private work by consultants

The HSE is to challenge what it says is the excessive private work being carried out by consultants in public hospitals

News • 11 Jun 18

The review focused on the work of an audiologist who worked in the Mayo and Roscommon area

Families at centre of audiology failures receive audit

The HSE has said that almost 50 families affected by serious failings in audiology services provided to children in the west of the country have been given copies of an audit examining the care they received.

Health • 12 Jul 18

Of more than 900 cases examined, 49 children have been found to be affected

49 families to receive apology over audiology failings

Almost 50 families in counties Mayo and Roscommon are to receive an apology for serious failings in audiology services provided to their children, RTÉ Investigates has learned.

Health • 07 Jun 18

Emma Mhic Mhathúna leaving today's High Court hearing

HSE yet to admit full liability in Mhic Mhathúna case

The High Court has heard that the HSE has not yet admitted full liability in a case taken by terminally-ill woman Emma Mhic Mhathúna.

CervicalCheck • 30 May 18

Emma Mhic Mhathúna is one of the three women seeking the documents

HSE accepts provision of documents is 'critical'

The HSE has told the High Court it accepted the provision of documentation and cervical smear slides involving three women affected by the CervicalCheck controversy were "critical and urgent."

Courts • 24 May 18

Paul Reck was told last Thursday that his late wife was given an incorrect smear result

Husband 'devastated' over wife's delayed diagnosis

The husband of a woman who died of cervical cancer in April 2012 has said he is devastated by news of his wife's delayed diagnosis.

News • 13 May 18

The HSE was informed two years ago that a programme was under way to communicate the findings of a review of scans

Memos 'were not brought to health minister's attention'

The Department of Health has said that CervicalCheck shared a number of documents with it, in relation to the smear test audit, including the HSE memos released today to the Public Accounts Committee.

Politics • 10 May 18

Mr McCallion said priority is being given to women with specific clinical queries or a history of cervical cancer

Nearly 5,000 waiting for call back over CervicalCheck

New figures from the HSE have shown nearly 5,000 women are still waiting for a call back from the HSE's CervicalCheck helpline.

Health • 07 May 18

Tony O'Brien has been Director General since July 2013

O'Brien to leave HSE role earlier than expected

HSE Director General Tony O'Brien will leave his role at the beginning of July, four weeks earlier than expected.

News • 06 May 18

Baby Ciara Loughlin died shortly after birth at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise in 2007

HSE apology over care failings at Portlaoise hospital

The HSE has apologised in the High Court for failings in relation to the care provided at the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise 11 years ago when a baby girl died.

News • 26 Apr 18

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