Health

  • Paying for health

    The insurance hike has helped to prompt a fundamental rethink about Ireland’s health system. VHI’s market dominance is its main…

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  • Children’s hospital dispute

    A fresh row has broken out over the site for the proposed national children’s hospital and divisions are beginning to…

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  • Moving in the right direction

    Health policy analyst Sara Burke examines how health care will change under the new Fine Gael-Labour coalition. In times of…

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  • Incentivising reform

    eolas hears some of Ireland’s leading health professionals’ suggestions for health care reform. A group of the health professionals has…

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  • Towards a new health care system

    ESRI Director, Professor Frances Ruane, outlines the recommendations put to the Department of Health and Children for a complete reform…

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  • Coping with population change

    ESRI research professor Richard Layte analyses how the increasing proportion of over 65s in the population, the higher life expectancy,…

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  • Regulating reproduction

    Legislation for the “complex, profound and divisive” world of assisted human reproduction will be initiated in 2010. Since 1999, when…

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  • Primary care

    The HSE remain optimistic about its primary care initiative despite progress being “slower than initially hoped.” A “modern, patient centred…

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  • The state of our health

    Bad habits must be tackled in order to improve the health and well-being of the Irish population. Obesity and diabetes…

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  • Government savings: Aileen Murphy

    Aileen Murphy suggests how the health care system can fairly implement the McCarthy report’s recommendations that people contribute more to…

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