The Check Up 14th August 2015
Music can benefit surgery patients, €287k spent on under-sixes GP scheme launch, social care workers in strike threat
Music can benefit surgery patients, €287k spent on under-sixes GP scheme launch, social care workers in strike threat
Ambulance carrying child involved in crash, plans for national paediatric hospital to be lodged & Gardaí start probe into care home abuse claims.
Health watchdog finds stroke screening cost-effective, HSE ‘disappointed’ by HIQA notice over Áras Attracta & HSE ‘failed’ children in residential care.
Free GP care for over 70s starts, pill reduces womb cancer risk, major study finds, staff at Dublin psychiatric hospital to ballot for industrial action.
GP registration for over 70s, successful health reform needs trust, 260 hepatitis C deaths in 20 years.
Eight-year-old boy receives double hand transplant, link between prescription drugs for over-65s and fall injuries, retired HSE staff employed again.
Hospitals to face inspections over patient nutrition, eight diabetes patients a week lost a lower limb to amputation.
Free healthcare ‘doable’ in next Government, more than 90pc of GPs have signed up to free visits for under-sixes, €500m needed for nursing home refurbishment.
Beacon Hospital employee resigns, sugary drinks may cause type 2 diabetes and HSE nursing home scandal
Hospital procurement fraud inquiry began last September, Another worker at Áras Attracta care home suspended, Major drop in number of teenagers smoking