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Hospital turns away five cystic fibrosis patients
THE main treatment centre for cystic fibrosis has been forced to turn away patients in need of treatment for potentially life-threatening infections. Five ill patients with the disease had to wait at...
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Orla Tinsley on disregard for CF sufferers
The news that people with cystic fibrosis cannot access single en suite rooms at Ireland’s first dedicated adult CF centre, at St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin, is not surprising. When I arrived seeking...
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John Crown on cystic fibrosis unit
Seanad leader Maurice Cummins (FG) refused to continue making a reply to concerns about the adequacy of cystic fibrosis treatment facilities after John Crown (Ind) asked which public relations firm...
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‘They removed my stomach by mistake’
ALAN O’Gorman has had to endure living without a stomach for over a decade after doctors mistook him for another patient. The 31-year-old Dubliner was plunged into a nightmare when he was incorrectly...
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‘Cattle would be treated better’, says CF sufferer
Shaunagh Morrissey, from Cashel, Co Tipperary, underwent a liver transplant in August and currently has a chest infection. However, she is refusing to go to St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin because all...
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Orla Tinsley: We CF patients need to focus on living
The “where possible” rooms are not clustered together on a floor where staff are trained in CF. There is no exercise equipment in these unspecified rooms in the 100-bed building. This week I arrived...
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Hospital car-park charges are four times higher than two years ago
DAILY parking charges at some hospitals are now up to four times more expensive than they were two years ago, new figures reveal. Parking hikes, which hit patients, visitors and staff, have been...
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Anger over reports of hospital budget cuts of 2% or more
Opposition politicians have reacted angrily to a report that a number of hospitals including St James’s, St Vincent’s and Dublin’s two children’s hospitals will experience budget cuts of 2 per cent or...
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Letter to Irish Times: View from a hospital trolley
Sir, – I was more than a little discombobulated on March 20th, as I listened to a radio report that Minister for Health Dr James Reilly claimed the number of patients awaiting a hospital bed from an...
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Maternity hospital move is good news for mothers and babies
Dr Rhona Mahony, the master of the National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street, Dublin, spoke yesterday of how upset she feels for mothers who must endure the crowded conditions in its building dating...
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Family gets €110,000 after mum killed by sedatives overdose
Margaret Duggan’s widower, William, told the court how his 63-year-old wife, who had multiple sclerosis, was “in good form” and did not have a life-threatening complaint when admitted to St Vincent’s...
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HIQA inspections find poor hygiene in four hospitals
HIQA reports into hygiene standards in five hospitals published this morning have found evidence of inadequate hand hygiene leading to risk of infection to patients while wards in two hospitals were...
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St Vincent’s may be next to face Public Accounts Committee
Senior figures in the St Vincent’s Healthcare Group may be called to give evidence before the Dáil Public Accounts Committee after concerns were raised by a TD about payments to senior staff and...
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St Vincent’s refuses to provide allowance details for senior staff
St Vincent’s University Hospital has refused to tell a HSE audit into top-up payments how much it has been paying senior staff in private allowances. In an update to its audit of voluntary hospitals...
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Reilly warns St Vincent’s over failing to co-operate with top-up audit
Minister for Health James Reilly has warned that St Vincent’s University Hospital faces “serious consequences” if it fails to co-operate with a HSE audit on top-up payments. Dr Reilly was speaking...
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St Vincent’s Hospital at centre of drugs cover-up accusations and HSE top-ups...
Earlier today, Independent Senator John Crown made a hugely damaging accusation against the hospital in the Seanad. He sensationally accused staff at the hospital of deliberately and fraudulently...
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Muiris Houson on St Vincent’s controversy
Senator John Crown’s allegations about research practices at St Vincent’s Hospital are extremely serious. The distinguished consultant oncologist is unlikely to have made them without documentary...
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HSE to meet St Vincent’s Hospital over top-up pay
The Health Service Executive is meeting with the chairman of the St Vincent’s Hospital Group today to discuss top-up payments made to senior executives. Chief executive of the group Nicholas Jermyn, is...
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St Vincent’s to consider new proposals on top-up payments
The board of the St Vincent’s Healthcare Group is to meet today to consider proposals for dealing with the controversy over additional payments made to senior executives on top of official pay rates in...
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St Vincent’s group considers plans for chief executive to be paid fully from...
The board of the St Vincent’s Healthcare Group is understood to be considering revised management structures which involve its chief executive being paid exclusively from private sources in future....
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