Martin Wall
Public Policy Correspondent at Irish Times
Public Policy correspondent of The Irish Times. Formerly correspondent based in Washington and correspondent covering industrial relations in Ireland
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Martin Wall
“It is frightening, what was happening at CHI”, Sinn Féin health spokesman David Cullinane said as politician after politician at the Oireachtas health committee tore strips off the embattled group that runs children’s hospital services in Dublin.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Martin Wall
The HSE hopes to introduce new rostering arrangements over the summer that could require many healthcare staff to work at weekends for the first time, its chief executive has said. Bernard Gloster said final management proposals for the introduction of rostering staff to work any five days in a week – known as 5/7 day working – was currently with trade unions.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Martin Wall
The head of Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) is to apologise to patients, their families and the public over “revelations relating to our culture, governance and practices” that have led to “great pain being inflicted upon some of those who were in our care”.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Martin Wall
Builders pitching for the contract for the new National Maternity Hospital are understood to have included contingency amounts of about €500 million to cover any rising costs during construction. The Irish Times reported last month that tenders for the new hospital were coming in at about €1.5 billion but other bills associated with developing and commissioning the facility could push the final price to €2 billion.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Martin Wall
Beaumont Hospital in Dublin billed the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) – the State-funded organisation which buys care for those on long waiting lists – for about 1,400 patients seen in routine public clinics, doctors have claimed. Concerns were raised by consultants in one speciality at Beaumont in a letter to the hospital’s chairwoman, Pauline Philip, earlier this year.
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Confidential internal CHI report says consultant was seeing twice the number of patients in the weekend clinic than during regular weekday equivalent. He received €35,800 for the weekend work, it added. See details @IrishTimes
A consultant at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI), at the centre of a controversy over seeing patients at special weekend clinics for which he was paid extra, did not carry out on call duties for three years due to health issues. See @IrishTimes
Nearly 6,400 retired staff who worked at companies in the State-owned CIÉ transport group are to receive their first pension increase in 17 years. Rises of up to 5 per cent form part of a deal drawn up by the CIÉ group and trade unions. See @IrishTimes