Health
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A fair deal?
Following the launch of the Government scheme that will see the state paying the bulk of nursing home fees, there…
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Party policy summary
The Programme for Government and the Budget made moderate changes to the health care system. Given the chance, opposition parties…
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The health divide: Sara Burke
Journalist Sara Burke asks why, after eight years of reform, the Irish health care system is “divisive, unfair and badly…
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Co-locating care
Health Minister Mary Harney promised 1,000 beds would be created through co-location, a scheme where private hospitals would be built…
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Caring at the end of life
While the Health Research Board has found that many terminally ill patients would prefer to die in a hospice than…
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Best way to care
Meeting individual need not imposing a one-size-fits-all approach is the best was forward for older people’s care, Tadhg Daly writes.…
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