Great to be
@HSELive
conference today with
@BernardGloster
and hundreds of our healthcare workers
✅Trolley numbers ⬇️ despite increasing demand
✅Waiting times continue to come ⬇️
✅180,000 more patients treated last year than 2022
My message to our healthcare workers👇🏻
Patients & Nurses partner to launch a new name for the cancer nurse specialist telephone triage service:SOS Hotline,🆘coupled with new National Standardised Patient Information & Alert Cards, available in 6 languages
@DonnellyStephen
@CNO
@NurMidONMSD
#SOSHotlineforCancerPatient
We want to ensure children and young people are safe online.
Today, Minister
@DonnellyStephen
launched an Online Health Taskforce to develop a public health response to harms caused by certain types of online activity, along with annual funding for national awarness campaigns.
Congrats to the thousands of students who received offers today for health and social care college places. We're increasing places across disciplines as part of plan to double places on healthcare related courses. I meet students inc
@atu_ie
who know it'll be a rewarding career.
Great to see this innovation in ED avoidance in Galway working out so well - well done to everyone involved. Taking the pressure off patients and off our healthcare workers.
Irish men live 8 years longer nowadays than they did in 1990, and women live 6 years longer. We have transformed from having the shortest lives among Anglophone countries to being behind only Australia in our longevity.
#PositiveIreland
🇮🇪
"This is one of the public health challenges of our time and I and this Government are treating it with that level of seriousness."
@DonnellyStephen
on adopting a public health approach to some of the damage caused by social media to children and young people.
A special day for so many Leaving Cert students in Wicklow and across the country. Many thousands of these students will embark on a career in healthcare and this year we have hundreds of additional college places in health and social care.
It’s a really exciting week for
#Greystones
Community College. More than 170 students will start their second-level education on Friday at the school. And there will be a sod-turning for the brand new school build with site clearance now well underway.
@GreystonesColl
📚 Minister
@NormaFoleyTD1
continues to expand the hugely successful free schoolbooks scheme, which will now be available to 212,000 Junior Cycle students as the new school year commences over the coming days.
Fianna Fáil is committed to making education affordable for all.
✅Over 1,000 couples have now been referred for publicly funded IVF Treatment
✅First baby born
✅Thousands of couples have had fertility-related issues resolved at regional health hubs
We welcome Minister
@DonnellyStephen
launch of the final report today from the Expert Taskforce on expanding the role of pharmacy to support enhanced patient outcomes. Pharmacist advice, treatment and prescribing for common conditions is the initial focus.
Important day for
#pharmacy
in
#Ireland
, with Minister for Health
@DonnellyStephen
publishing this report.
Happy to have been a member of the Taskforce Research Sub-Committee, advising on recommendations for future
#research
to inform, enhance, and evaluate these expanded roles
An historic day in healthcare in Ireland as Minister
@DonnellyStephen
publishes the Final Report of the Expert Taskforce to Support the Expansion of the Role of Pharmacy. It was a privilege to serve as a member of the Taskforce.
I’m so proud and privileged to be one of the
@HSELive
nominees on the Taskforce to develop the plan and to also chair the Research Subcommittee. Thank you
@roinnslainte
and
@DonnellyStephen
for recognising the value of pharmacy and pharmacists.
@BernardGloster