Healthcare workers are experiencing severe burnout as they face into the second year of the Covid-19 global pandemic, the Oireachtas Health Committee will be told.
During his troubled time as Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly has left himself open to ridicule, partly because of his tendency to explain his policies in a way that at times sounds condescending. It has become known in Irish politics as “Stephensplaining”.
During his troubled time as Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly has left himself open to ridicule, partly because of his tendency to explain his policies in a way that at times sounds condescending. It has become known in Irish politics as “Stephensplaining”.
Deficit of 131 Consultant Pathologists ‘missing’ from health system
Need for increased staffing underscored to mark World Cancer Day
The Irish health system is ‘missing hundreds of pathology Consultants’, required to provide vital links between cancer diagnosis and treatment, says a leading Haematologist.
The numbers of haematologists, immunologists and microbiologists in Ireland are at 18 per cent, 41 per cent and 53 per cent below the EU average, according to the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA).
Over 7,400 adults and more than 250 children are on an outpatient hospital waiting list to see a Consultant Haematologist; an increase of more than 100 per cent in the past six years, added the IHCA.
Prof Alan Irvine, President of the IHCA
We must plan for future as waiting lists grow, warns IHCA
Plans to tackle growing waiting lists after the current surge in Covid-19 cases ends must begin now, the President of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association has said.
New figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) showed there were now 838,675 people in Ireland in the queue for hospital treatment.
By the end of 2020, the number waiting on an outpatient appointment to see a specialist had increased by 50,000 since the start of 2020 to 606,230.
The NTPF data released last Friday (January 15) also showed that 72,475 patients were waiting for inpatient or day case treatment, while 32,539 were waiting for a gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy.