Tag: health
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Ireland : A picture of health
Health appeared as a big issue in the election. A common tendency is to say “sure we cant keep throwing money at it!” This presumes, of course, that we have been. And we are “we”. Some we’s are spending more. Theres a creeping privatisation at work from the OECD data.
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Even the HSE CIO says PPSN would work as a health ID so why a separate number?
So yesterday, and this was news to me, we got another unique one per person number. Apart form the PPSN, used for pretty much every state and many non state ID purposes, and the new pupil number for the POD database, we are now to have a unique IHI health ID number. This project is…
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(no doubt this will be classified as an unfair) question to the cabinet about cystic fibrosis
So once again we see the provision of isolated (read, appropriate) beds for Cystic Fybrosis patients coming to the fore. The indefatiguable Orla Tinsley, CF patient, writer and social media exponent, has been hospitalised, and is telling her story. In nutshell, Ireland has the highest incidence of CF in the world. I have had family…
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Its not the points, its the system, thats a problem in the points system
Irish second level school students are now in the early stages of their school-leaving examinations, with oral language and applied science examinations ongoing and the main written exams starting Wednesday 6th with English Paper 1.They take their examination in a relatively good spot , with a dip in the numbers leaving school likely to result in less…