Tagged with: healthcare
The Future of the Irish Healthcare System
Kirsty Doyle 03/05/2020
On the 24 March 2020, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar announced that private hospitals would operate as public during the COVID-19 Emergency. This measure was introduced to bring an additional 2,000 beds and thousands of healthcare staff into the public system in a bid to prevent our public hospitals from becoming overwhelmed due to increases in cases …
Privatisation, Precarity and Pandemic
Nick O'Neill 28/04/2020
“Minister ‘ashamed’ at waiting list for home help hours”“Body of pensioner lay undiscovered in house”“Home helps to ballot for strike …
Health Budget Fictions
Patrick Kinsella 22/05/2019
The new chief of the HSE has made cost-containment his top priority. Taking office in mid-May, Paul Reid’s first act was to order senior health …
The Alcohol Industry - A case study of health versus wealth
Nat O'Connor 16/03/2012
Nat O'Connor: The recently completed (Feb 2012) Steering Group Report On a National Substance Misuse Strategy has taken a public health approach to …
Guest post by Dale Tussing: Chinese Health Care - Its Rise and Fall and Current Struggles
07/02/2011
With healthcare one of the items on the General Election agenda, Professor Dale Tussing takes a look at the Chinese experience. It is quite a jump, …
Fine Gael health proposals
Tom O'Connor 07/07/2010
Tom O'Connor: The Fine Gael political party has recently launched a comprehensive set of proposals aimed at creating a fair health system in Ireland …
Another take on healthcare
18/03/2010
"There is a startling commonality between the root causes and defects of the ongoing banking crisis and those that continue to gain momentum within …
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Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …