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Follow-up on
@SaferBirthsIre
campaign for a National Inquiry into Baby Deaths.
Yesterday, the AG confirmed life expectancy in Ireland has increased, now only 2nd behind Sweeden. The investment formula for care costs - "real rate of return" will be shortly set by the DOJ.
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Powerful contribution from
@TomClonan
My son had spinal surgery in Temple Street in 2018. He was 18 years old. He should have had the surgery when he was maybe, 12, but he didn't because it's Ireland - and he was on an extremely long waiting list.
#TempleStreet
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Some good news.
A 13-year old Kerry boy who faced long delays in getting scoliosis surgery had a successful 12-hour operation on Thursday, his delighted mother said.
@griffinniamh
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Consultant radiologist suspended by University Hospital Kerry 'paraded like a criminal through the halls'
Martin Schranz, the only senior radiologist was suspended without notice on December 22 and escorted out of the building.
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I've asked you a question, I'm going to ask you for the fifth time, - "Are you saying today, that you had no discussion with any consultant about the possible use of these springs?"
@RoisinShortall
#TempleStreet
#D
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Maybe you could explain to me how a device, walked into a theatre that isn't packaged, and CE marked,- I don't understand -
@neasa_neasa
'I've worked on building sites and you couldn't put a non, up to grade window into a building because somebody would stop you'
#TempleStreet
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#ThinkBeforeYouTweet
#CiaraKelly
#MentalHealth
@NewstalkFM
Dear Dr Ciara Kelly,
Your article
@Independent_ie
Sunday will resonate with a lot of people, for different reasons and it hopefully will do some good.
Sadly, I do not see an apology or remorse for (1)
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An impact which stung and stuck for a long time...indeed an impact which was not good for my mental health.
As they say it takes one to know one.
I wish you the best.
Caoimhe
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WATCH: John Waters & Gemma O’Doherty vow to pursue State to European court over lockdown if necessary
As a member of the legal profession I am (rightly) limited in attending the Fourcourts. How on earth was this permitted by the Gardai???
@CharlieFlanagan
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@wereontheditch
#Referendums
Agree w/ comments ⬇️ re v serious Q’s 4 Government ahead of tomorrow’s vote & notwithstanding moratorium. The Electorate has been misled, misinformed, in fact denied vital advice from 🇮🇪 top’s lawyer, the Government’s own legal advisor.
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Truly Horrifying.
Care home used by Tusla ‘fabricated’ pre-employment checks of staff, posing major risk to young people in its care
Company who ran emergency accommodation for children in State care ‘fabricated’ staff checks and Garda vetting
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@MaryMcAuliffe4
Dear Dr McAuliffe, have you read the advice of the Attorney General?
Respectfully, your comments regarding
@SenatorMcDowell
are most unfair & ill-judged. Every single Government Minister/NGO was given a platform to “inform” the electorate (at our expense).They didn’t do so.
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@martinpschranz
@hospital_kerry
Dear Martin, I am so sorry and absolutely gutted for you. After all you have done and post the recent meeting with
@BernardGloster
for him to understand the difficulties faced by
#Whistleblowers
. This is not right.
@HSELive
@hospital_kerry
@MargoHannon
@AnybodyButBerti
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Dear
@PhelanVicky
@LorcallWalsh
@Stephenteap
@221plus
I am so very sorry for you and all the women, families and bereaved who have suffered so much as a result of the
#CervicalCheck
scandal and how you all have been let down AGAIN.
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any hurt/upset you might have unintentionally caused to others by your own vociferous Twitter voice.
On a personal note, you will probably have forgotten you tweeted about my professional capacity as a solicitor which had a very profound impact upon me - as a person (2)
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#RIPRuthMorrissey
Thanks to the remarkable bravery & determination of this Lady we have a ruling from our highest Court setting the standards of care for
#cervicalcancerscreening
. We owe Ruth & Paul so much for this legal clarity which will assist many ors in their legal actions
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👏💯
Perhaps those who remember Deputy Harris' term as Health Minister best are families of children with scoliosis, who were promised that they would not wait longer than 4 months for 'life-changing' surgery. A promise disgracefully broken. Again, and again -
@MaryLouMcDonald
A gentle reminder - “by the end of this year (2017) no child will wait longer for a scoliosis procedure than 4 months”. Aug 2018 and children continue to languish on lists. Do you still feel ashamed
@SimonHarrisTD
?
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Despite commitments from CHI at Health Committee - a family caught up in
#TempleStreet
surgery controversy is forced to use courts to access their child's medical records.
I'm calling, for a Statutory Inquiry under section 9 into this controversy.
Children deserve the truth.
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The High Court has directed the Chief Executive of Children's Health Ireland to appear before it tomorrow to explain why it has delayed releasing the medical records of a child caught up in the spinal surgery controversy.
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The full interview 30th July 2018 about the former Taoiseach’s promise.
@caulmick
@PhelanVicky
@LorcallWalsh
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Calling, once again on An Taoiseach
@LeoVaradkar
& Health Minister
@DonnellyStephen
- you have met the families, you know what must be done. You have the powers to put in place a Statutory Inquiry into the practices at Temple Street Hospital.
The children deserve the truth.
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The Dutch surgeon who invented the implant technique at the core of the Temple Street surgery scandal warned that the system could not be used with just any spring.
Michael O'Farrell
(
@IrishMailSunday
)
#TempleStreet
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The
@sinnfeinireland
motion on Scoliosis and Spina Bifida begins with an introduction by
@davidcullinane
in the Dáil as the families watch from the gallery.
A litany of broken promises- the worse one of all from former Health Min.
@SimonHarrisTD
#BackUs
#rtept
#scoliosis
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We are delighted to learn of the HSE decision to respect the residents' right to remain in their home at
#CherryOrchardHospital
The families have made trojan efforts to keep their loved ones where they wanted to be -with their community. Well done.
Human Rights Don't Grow Old
A big thank you to everyone who supported the residents' right to remain in their home at Cherry Orchard Hospital. This achievement is a testament to the residents' and families' unwavering campaign. Please see their statement 👇
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#Cervicalcancer
@PhelanVicky
“begs TDs for right to ‘go gently’ when she dies”
NOBODY should have to “beg” for the health care they choose.
Shameful that this courageous Lady has to now fight for this right after everything she has been through.
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Families affected by delays in spinal surgery have called on Simon Harris to do right by their children in light of promises made when he was health minister in 2017
@griffinniamh
A gentle reminder - “by the end of this year (2017) no child will wait longer for a scoliosis procedure than 4 months”. Aug 2018 and children continue to languish on lists. Do you still feel ashamed
@SimonHarrisTD
?
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Heartbreaking 💔
Katie Doyle was discharged from Beaumont Hospital with a bag after being told she was suffering panic attack...she collapsed at home with a pulmonary embolism three days after she was discharged
⚠️"If you could just do blood tests in the future," Susan Doyle
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Minister after Minister - promises made, promises broken. Surely we can do better for the children & their families? Why does everything have to be a battle?
Parents of children with scoliosis and spina bifida say they are deteriorating on waiting lists for essential spinal surgeries. New figures from Children's Health Ireland show an all time high of 327 children on the list, with some waiting in pain for years.
@ElleLenn
reports.
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#TempleStreet
A Letter has come to light, bringing a “new complexion” to the controversy.
@MaryLouMcDonald
@LeoVaradkar
“Apparently [patients] consented to experimental procedures”
An Taoiseach, a medical professional is fully aware of the principle of “Informed Consent”.
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Judge astounded family caught up in spinal surgery case had to go to court for medical files
#TempleStreet
Eilish Hardiman attended the High Court as the organisation apologised and its counsel accepted there had been “total breakdown in communication”
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Thank you,
@Toibin1
for raising the case of
@courtneymaning
in the Dáil.
"There is serious problems happening with regard to people suffering adverse incidents in hospitals and also with people waiting so long, that they are not getting the necessary treatment"
#PatientsMatter
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#SIPO
High Court quashes SIPO decision to refuse The Ditch access to Leo Varadkar’s donation statement
In a statement today, the Ditch said the decision is a ‘win for transparency’.
Good work from the
@wereontheditch
team.
(
@thejournal_ie
)
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Two hospitals have apologised for the failings in care to a young Cork boy whose brain tumour grew and went undetected for over 12 years.
We are heartbroken and without him, our sense of joy in life is gone. Our lives are changed forever.
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RIP ANN - Our country has lost it's humanity.
Body of woman who was sleeping rough found in Dublin city centre - 'Ann was a lovely lady'
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A
#CovidInquiry
with meaning?
In support of
@CareChampions2
& indeed many TDs in the Dáil, I would like to call on the Government to address the accountability issue -in particular what are they going to do about the compellability of witness and documentary evidence?
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The family of a young girl who underwent spinal surgery at Temple Street Children's Hospital has launched High Court proceedings looking for all of their child’s medical records. This is the second family to go to court over medical records.
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We discovered last Sept [in
@wereontheditch
] of unlicensed springs used in Temple Street children’s operations. Following a review of initial 19 cases - additional 17 cases are to be reviewed. We need to listen to the families Taoiseach
@LeoVaradkar
/ Minister
@DonnellyStephen
. TY
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Criticism of hospital leadership deleted from final report into death of 16-year-old Aoife Johnston - MSheehan
A draft report found that the executive management team appeared to have little understanding of the risks to patients caused by overcrowding
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In the wake of the emerging scandal at Temple Street Children’s Hospital. I thought I might do a short piece, which, hopefully, might be of assistance to families and children navigating their way through the scandal.
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Remembering Vicky Phelan - the woman who “lit the flame” with her passionate crusades and unflinching bravery on the first anniversary of her death.
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Seven years ago, the then Minister for Health
@SimonHarrisTD
gave a commitment that no child would wait more than 4 months for spinal surgery. That same commitment was given by the current Minister for Health,
@DonnellyStephen
two years ago -
@RoisinShortall
#BackUs
#D
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I have just see the news Ruth Morrissey has died.
I am so, so sad for her wonderful husband, her daughter and extended family. She fought so hard and her time was so short in the end. May She Rest In Peace.
#RuthMorrissey
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Families of residents living in a nursing home in Cherry Orchard Hospital in Dublin are calling on HSÉ not to move their loved ones to a facility in Clondalkin.
Christine, Maria, & Ann dropped in tell us about their campaign.
Full interview 👇
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The manner in which we treat people is shameful.
Connolly Hospital so overcrowded that sheets are being used to separate patients on trolleys
A video which shows how trollies have been crammed into a room normally used as a family meeting area
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This is utterly disgraceful & indefensible.
Victims/Survivors of
#IndustrialSchools
and now this?
#ChildrenDeserveBetter
#MyNameIs
@tusla
@HSELive
@DonnellyStephen
@BernardGloster
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#HowIrelandWorks
@irishdailymail
Worth reading & reflecting on the words of David, a Pensioner from Wexford, his summing up of 🇮🇪 today. They will resonate.
@SimonHarrisTD
@MichealMartinTD
@EamonRyan
#GeneralElectionNow
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Please read out of respect for :
@PhelanVicky
@LorcallWalsh
@Stephenteap
And RIP and respect for all our women - grandmothers, mothers, sisters, aunts, children devastated by
#CervicalCheckScandal
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@journal_ie
At last this little 9 year old girl can come home safe & sound 🙏 but let us not forget the little 6 year old girl “fighting for her life” in hospital tonight 🙏. Be it Gaza, Dublin or anywhere, No Child should suffer like this 💔
#GazaCeasefire
#DublinRiots
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Taoiseach defends Coalition's record on mother and baby homes after review scrapped
#motherandbabyhomes
Justice delayed, Justice denied….will there ever be “Justice” for the survivors, let alone
#accountability
?
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@wereontheditch
#TempleStreet
@wereontheditch
No more - “
@CeoHardiman
“
@CHI_Ireland
needs a whole new management, from top to bottom.
That’s what our Children deserve.
@scolionetwork
@SBH_PAG
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Yet another, shocking scandal besetting the broken state of healthcare services in 🇮🇪 impacting & endangering the safety/wellbeing of the most vulnerable in society, Babies/Children
#RTEPrimeTime
@HSELive
@tusla
@DonnellyStephen
@rodericogorman
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#AoifeJohnstonRIP
.
@irishdailymail
#ValerieHanley
The truth is coming out about
@ULHospitals
- manager, at time of tragedy now an advisor to
@DonnellyStephen
, but on leave.
Yet, the Minister is “taken aback” by AE Consultant’s evidence at Inquest.
#HowIrelandWorks
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“We need a commissioner for older people” - 100%
“We need a commissioner for older people”
Mai is a volunteer working with older people and she gave her view on
#RTEUpfront
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Aoife Johnston’s family criticises HSE for lack of consultation on inquiry into teenager’s death
Her family has said that her condition deteriorated to such a degree during that time that other patients began advocating for her to be seen.
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Out in Lucan Lodge this morning with the residents - another cohort of people who are being moved against their wishes.
#SaveLucanLodge
@CareChampions2
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Why the delay?
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has declined to say when a Covid-19 inquiry may be established, saying the Taoiseach has indicated he wants it to be signed off "soon enough".
Dept of Taoiseach currently working on terms of reference.
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Happy New Year from
@CMHaughey
Health, Peace and Happiness for 2024.
Best wishes from myself and my darling Dalmatians
#LoveDogs
🥂
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@businessposthq
Here is our very own
@walls2
#PatientAdvocate
- his crusade is unstoppable to right the wrongs for terminally ill patients’
#Medical
CardRights
(And he looks great, what an inspiration) 👍😁👍
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Some Advice for those looking to access their medical records.
#KnowYourRights
#DataProtection
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IRELAND’S Children’s Ombudsman is “really frustrated and angry” at the lack of progress being made in tackling waiting lists for surgeries for kids as he declared: “This is not good enough for our children.”
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HSE 'regrets' being unable to reopen children's psychiatric ward after 17 months of closure
The HSE said that it has not been able to recruit the necessary nursing staff to reopen the 11-bed ward.
#Camhs
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@MargoHannon
- please read and retweet, Margo is a tireless advocate for those victims & their grieving families who died as a result of needless neglect in
#NursingHomes
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🤨A 50% cut to the provision of mastectomy bras -medical device essential in preventing Lymphedema
Are we back to what
@GabrielScally
described as "a dark culture of misogyny and paternalism" in how we treat women living with / surviving breast cancer.
TY
@MarianHarkin
#D
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@caulmick
@mulvanypeopleb1
@rtenews
Already the excuse, & gaslighting that the electorate was “too confused”. Firstly, that’s an insult to the intelligence of 🇮🇪, secondly, if there was confusion, the Government is fully to blame for that. Period.
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Temple Street Controversy
It is open to the families to call upon the Government to direct a Section 9 Statutory Inquiry - where the Min for Health believes there is a safety risk in the provision of surgical services to children -
@CaoimheHaughey1
#tonightvmtv
#TempleStreet
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Had the great pleasure today to interview this remarkable lady,
@MargoHannon
, former
@HSELive
HCA &
#Whistleblower
who stood up for her patients and colleagues resulting in the first
#NursingHomeEnquiry
in the State. More to follow
Well done Margo. 👍😊
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Heartbreaking read. Minister,
@DonnellyStephen
An Taoiseach
@LeoVaradkar
Tánaiste
@MichealMartinTD
- this is totally unacceptable.
‘He is sleeping on the floor’: Scoliosis waiting list puts heartbreaking pressure on young Noah
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Rising medical negligence legal costs v the people looking for the truth.
The reason why people go through the courts is because it was their last option, their only route, their last resort. Nobody wants to go to Court. -
@CMHaughey
#MedicalNegligence
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Last Friday, it was announced that HIQA was to carry about an Inquiry in relation to Temple Street.
The families & advocates have not been involved in drawing up Terms of Reference for any Inquiry.
Please listen to families, Min.
@DonnellyStephen
, reschedule a meeting. TY
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@jenny_friel
Consultant Radiologist Dr Martin Schranz &
#Whistleblower
suspended from work at
@hospital_kerry
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Please listen
@LeoVaradkar
/
@MichealMartinTD
The Ombudsman for Children, Niall Muldoon, has called on the government to “honour its commitment” it made seven years ago to reduce scoliosis surgery waiting times for children to no longer than four months.
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@wereontheditch
@caulmick
.
@wereontheditch
#Referendums
AG, Rossa Fanning Senior Counsel issued a detailed 10 page Letter of Advice, 8th Dec 2023 to
@LeoVaradkar
@MichealMartinTD
@EamonRyan
& to ALL Government Ministers.
Have we heard/seen/been informed of this critical advice from 🇮🇪 top lawyer?
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May he rest in peace 😔
Dept confirms death of man sleeping rough in Dublin, offers condolences to family
Gardai discovered the man’s body on St Andrew’s street in the early hours of this morning.
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We are coming up against private nursing homes who believe they're exempt from law in relation to access of medical records.
‘No one cared about the elderly’ – family of woman who died after getting Covid want ‘tough’ pandemic inquiry -
@catherine_fegan
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National lab still not processing CervicalCheck samples after March pause
In the meantime, HPV and cytology samples are being processed by Quest Diagnostics Inc in America.
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TEEN'S HEALTH HELL
Irish mum’s ‘soul-destroying’ pain as son’s scoliosis curve almost TRIPLES & she lives in hospital amid harrowing ordeal
Please do something for Liam Dennehy Quinn, 13, from Fossa, Co Kerry,
@SimonHarrisTD
@DonnellyStephen
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And we wonder why our young med/nursing graduates head abroad.....
This is a kick in the teeth and won’t inspire trust
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A Kerry GP has spoken in support of a consultant radiologist suspended from University Hospital Kerry (UHK) in Christmas week saying he is the sort of person needed in the HSE.
@martinpschranz
/
@griffinniamh
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@caulmick
@MichealMartinTD
What about the fact the State indemnifies private clinics providing much needed maternal health care services, YET such private clinics are not open to the public? Can the AG address this issue please? Why should the tax payer fund a service it has no access to?
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Why the reticence of the Government to review how nursing homes were used during the Covid_19 pandemic?
-
@Toibin1
#MandatoryReporting
#CovidInquiry
@CareChampions2
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The father of a girl who suffered complications after spinal surgery has said he is hoping to get some answers after his daughter underwent four surgeries in nine months.
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'I don't know what else to do': Parents dismayed as spinal surgery review extended
#TempleStreetReview
"As a parent, I am honestly sick and worn out of having to come on radio and having to go on television, newspapers. We are doing it for years,"
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Inquiry into death of Aoife Johnston (16), who died after 12-hour A&E wait, will probe how UHL is run
@eilishor
The terms of reference for the new inquiry, to be headed by retired chief Justice Frank Clarke, were published this evening.
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Boy (6) provided with spinal records by Temple Street hospital after court’s intervention
Parents with children caught up in the spinal surgery controversy at Temple Street hospital are ‘pouring their hearts out’ in requests for medical records
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Our offices close today until January 3rd, 2024.
🎄 Happy Christmas & all the very best for 2024 to our valued clients & colleagues from
@CaoimheHaughey1
& team.
#HappyChristmas2023
🌟
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@scolionetwork
@SimonHarrisTD
@SBH_PAG
@LeoVaradkar
@FineGael
@DonnellyStephen
@CeoHardiman
@dcediy
@OCO_ireland
@ChildRightsIRL
@_IHREC
@coe
@CoE_children
@HSELive
@BernardGloster
@TomClonan
Quite incredible to witness this blatant misinformation & misstating of known FACTS in Dàil Eireann.
@SimonHarrisTD
@scolionetwork
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#cervicalcheck
Cervical cancer patient 'too weak' to give evidence via
@RTENews
Why was
#mediation
not agreed two week ago?
This is no way to treat people 😞
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@PhelanVicky
starts new
#podcast
about legal battle and ongoing cancer treatment in the US
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Despite the weather, they continued their protest today. And we were delighted that Ann, Maria & Christine, incredible women, dropped into the office to talk about their ongoing protest to keep their family members at
#CherryOrchardHospital
Full video to follow tomorrow
It's snowing & tired families of
#CherryOrchardHospital
are not giving up. Message to the
@HSELive
@MaryButlerTD
@BernardGloster
#FullInvestigation
#TransferTrauma
#anxiety
#Pressure
#NoStructralConcerns
#MDTWarnedHSE
#ReverseDecisionNow
16 people have already passed,
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Remembering all those lost during the Covid_19 pandemic this afternoon at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin.
Today, 26 representatives, one from each county, are laying a black wreath for those who
@CareChampions2
believe have been ignored and disrespected by the Government.
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#DublinRiots
#GoodSamaritans
Another Hero 2 be celebrated & lauded. This brave young man, on route 2 his graduation, came upon the horrific stabbings of the woman & 3 children last Thurs. As a Nurse he immediately “acted out of instinct”.
Read his story
@DublinLive
@HMcEntee
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This doesn't really make any sense with our aging population?
50 nursing homes close over four-year period, reducing number of available beds by almost 900
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@businessposthq
#Whistleblowers
- a deep dive in to the personal stories of
@Default69202648
@MargoHannon
@TomClonan
@NoelMcgree
👏👏👏
A must-read, for those of us who still believe in
#Democracy
🇮🇪
I hope
@HSELive
,
@DonnellyStephen
@roinnslainte
will read too….🤔
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How can you categorically assure people there isn't other 'unusual events'
A medical theatre - an item has been put into someone's body, and there isn't any cross-referencing or numbering, or double checking, triple checking
@conwayforclare
#TempleStreet
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Horrific. Father of five and grandfather to nine - we badly need to address the way our elderly treated.
Family of man, 93, who died after tenth fall in Cork nursing home settle action
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Nursing home operators will be compelled to hand over documents relating to pandemic at the upcoming Covid inquiry, according to the terms of reference put to government by a law firm representing families who lost loved ones to Covid-19.
@catherine_fegan
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