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When no one is accountable

Monday March 15 2010

MARY Harney was of course quite right when she said she could not be held responsible for every unopened letter in Tallaght Hospital. But someone has to be responsible for something, and in the Irish health service nobody seems to be accountable for anything.

HSE chief kept in the dark

Monday March 15 2010

HEALTH Service Executive chief Brendan Drumm was kept in the dark about the Tallaght Hospital X-ray scandal for months by his own officials.

A cardinal under pressure

Monday March 15 2010

UNTIL very recently, public questioning of past actions by the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland would have bordered on the unthinkable. Even farther outside the realms of possibility would have been calls for his resignation.

Two-tier system is real scandal

Friday March 12 2010

THE Tallaght Hospital scandal is a riddle wrapped in an enigma. The riddle is how such a massive dereliction of duty could have occurred. The enigma is the HSE.

Hopeless Harney has to take the blame

Friday March 12 2010

THE hopeless Health Minister is in New Zealand for St Patrick's Day and Professor Brendan Drumm has apparently gone into hiding, such is the silence from his office.

HSE in threat to dock pay as action escalates

Saturday March 06 2010

THE HSE has threatened to dock public servants' wages if they continue to severely disrupt patient care through industrial action.

Health staff 'are blocking own phone lines'

Friday March 05 2010

HEALTH sector staff have been accused of trying to deliberately "undermine" the processing of medical cards by flooding the centralised help centre with calls.

Capital's ambulance service is 'dysfunctional', says HSE chief

Friday March 05 2010

THE Health Service Executive has finally accepted that the ambulance service in the capital is "incredibly dysfunctional".

Just one hospital gets HSE 'green light'

Saturday February 27 2010

ONLY one of the country's acute hospitals reached the highest "green light" standard in a new Health Service Executive survey designed to rate efficiency.

Hospitals to use 'filmless' x-rays

Tuesday February 23 2010

THE majority of hospitals will be given the technology to have "filmless" x-rays and other scans over the next two to four years. HSE chief Brendan Drumm will today announce the implementation of the new €40m system, which promises an end to the days of lost x-rays.

HSE orders an end to 'two-tier' waiting lists

Tuesday February 16 2010

PUBLIC hospitals have been banned from asking patients booking diagnostic tests if they have private health insurance, the Irish Independent has learned.