Wrote most of this recently in hospital on my iPhone where I had the time as nothing else to do but observe the health system at work and participate in it! I am one of the 25% of the population who has neither a medical card nor private health insurance. I don’t believe in private […]
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Minister for Health, James Reilly wrote to members of Fine Gael today. I thought you might be interested to see the contents. A winter of discontent ahead, how patients are not going to suffer when all agency staff are cut I don’t know. Embargoes on recruitment have already decimated many services. And the waiting time […]
Minister for Health, Mary Harney this morning launched a report on a major study entitled Supporting LGBT Lives: A Study of the Mental Health and Well-Being of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People . You may remember the survey phase of the project and my post about it in late 2007. The reports authors, Paula […]
Tags:Gay Lesbian and Bisexual·Health Service Executive·LGBT·Mental Health·Sexual orientation·Suicide Prevention
In the category of ‘look what a useless shower of muppets our government are…’ (Large category I know!) Just before Christmas the UK government announced that they will be fast tracking the roll out of the programme to vaccinate young women between the ages of 12 and 17. The roll out of the programme has […]
Tags:Cervical cancer·Dawn Primarolo·Her Majesty's Government·Mary Harney·Vaccination
I rang the HSE press office this afternoon to get the full scéal so to speak. I spelt out my blog name to the nice man on the phone and he said he’d be back to me. And true to form (ok ok not true to form at all…) Surprise surprise… They rang me back […]
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