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Major gaps in private hospital system
People with private health insurance who live in the Cork catchment area are getting less value for money than those who live in Dublin and Galway, with “very significant gaps” in the private hospital...
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Figures show disparity between public and private Caesareans
The latest Hospital Inpatient Enquiry report on activity in Irish public hospitals shows a continuation in the significant numbers of women undergoing Caesarean section here. Of the 71,000 women who...
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St James’s closes public beds in consultant deal
St James’s Hospital in Dublin confirmed it had to convert four public beds to private beds in order to provide more accommodation for people with health insurance who are under the care of a...
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Kevin Myers: Only an O’Leary would be able to make HSE work
Nowadays, however, as hospitals have become great jobs-farms dominated by fearless and arrogant unions, the statistics are thoroughly Zimbabwean: on average, nearly 10pc of the HSE workforce are on...
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I’m no hypocrite, says Adams over private health treatment
Mr Adams insisted that he still personally supported the party’s policy of opposing the “privatisation of health care services” even though he had availed of private health care himself. And he denied...
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Caesarean rate higher in private care
Elective Caesarean sections are far more common among pregnant women who attend private consultants than among mothers delivering in the public health system, according to research. The rate of...
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Private patients twice as likely to have Caesarean, study finds
Private patients are twice as likely to have pre-planned Caesarean sections as women whose treatment is publicly funded, according to new figures that lend support to the theory that some mothers are...
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Number of public patients continues to rise
The proportion of public patients discharged from Irish hospitals rose last year, continuing the trend which has seen an average annual increase in public patients of 4.4 per cent since 2008. Public...
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Victoria White: Mount Carmel’s services aimed at serving mother rather than...
If we rely on private maternity care led by consultants, and fail to invest in midwife-led public care which puts mothers and babies first that is not going to happen. Krysia Lynch of the lobby group...
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HSE seeking clear separation between public and private hospitals at St...
The HSE is seeking a clear separation between the public and private hospitals on the St Vincent’s campus in south Dublin in terms of governance, management and operations. In a letter sent last...
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