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Minister to meet doctors over unit
MENTAL Health Minister Kathleen Lynch is to meet consultant psychiatrists from the south-east to discuss the HSE’s planned closure of a 49-bed acute unit. The meeting takes place on Wednesday when...
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Groups fight for psychiatric unit at South Tipperary General
The groups brought their action after it was announced that patient admissions to the unit were due to cease and the unit be closed by the end of last month, with patients transferred to St Luke’s...
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Hospital accused of ‘systems failure’
THE family of a woman whose lung cancer was only detected after her death has accused the South Tipperary General Hospital where she died of “systems failure”. An inquest into the death of Teresa...
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Thousands protest over Waterford hospital
Such a plan would see Waterford Regional Hospital and South Tipperary General Hospital linking up with Cork University Hospital and St Luke’s General Hospital in Kilkenny, and Wexford General Hospital...
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Cathal J Kelly on hospital care in Waterford
[Letter to Times >] Sir, – The Royal College of Surgeons Ireland supports and welcomes Minister for Health James Reilly’s development of hospital networks. We believe bringing hospitals together...
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Patients at serious risk of infection in six hospitals, health watchdog audit...
Patients are at serious risk of infection in almost half the hospitals tested for hygiene by the State’s health watchdog, new reports reveal. Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) inspectors...
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Cuts to South Tipperary’s mental health services
A local health service held up as “best mirroring” the Government’s stop-start ‘Vision for Change’ mental health reform is facing “serious cutbacks” due to staff shortages in the system. The...
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Patient calls for Kenny and Reilly to visit overcrowded A&E
A patient recovering from a brain haemorrhage, who had to spend hours on a hospital trolley in a corridor, has called on Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister for Health James Reilly to visit the...
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