‘Organisations sometimes attribute turnover to bad managers when the deeper cause is an overly stretched workforce’

Elderly Irishman deported by US to Costa Rica under countries’ controversial deal Man arrived in the central American country on Friday as part of a group of 22 deportees

Elderly Irishman deported by US to Costa Rica under countries’ controversial deal

Patrick Freyne: Here’s why AI is making us dumber and more lonely Writing forces people to resolve internal contradictions and confront their own bullshit. It’s why it’s hard. It’s why it’s beautiful

‘AI use will make us all stupider and it will make us feel more alone. Use your words, people. At the end of the day, they’re all we’ve got’ Patrick Freyne

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‘I will, yeah’: How a very Irish phrase presented a challenge for an immigrant doctor Delegates at IMO conference speak of largely positive experiences of coming to work in Ireland, but say challenges remain

“the Irish health services, and the people of this country, are utterly dependent on the contribution of international doctors, nurses and support staff”. @irishmedicalorg.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/...

Why the failure of Noël Browne’s mother and child scheme still matters 75 years later Proposals for free, universal healthcare were successfully blocked by the medical profession with support from the Catholic Church

‘Seventy-five years after the Mother and Child scheme, provision for a single-tier health system in the Republic remains a work in progress’
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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣
🧪 #MedSky

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‘The world witnessed what happened in Gaza. It’s happening again now. It’s planned, systematic and is happening in plain sight, while a US president threatens civilisational erasure and what’s left of the international order’ @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

Beaumont Hospital paid €1.5m to company in which 20 staff were directors without competitive process Financial statement reveals hospital was hit by a €40,000 fraud last year

Beaumont Hospital paid €1.5m to company in which 20 staff were directors without competitive process

"You cannot disconnect the state of the health service today from what happened to it during Covid."

@drkevinfong.bsky.social talks through the latest UK Covid Inquiry findings.

Listen to the full interview from the Medicine & Science Podcast - http://bit.ly/4t1BjVR

Keir Starmer gives resident doctors 48 hours to call off strike or lose training offer PM says decision by union to reject deal for thousands of extra training posts and 7.1% pay rise without putting it to members is ‘reckless’

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Doctor worried for family’s safety after brother was ‘headbutted and told to speak English’ Fatima Abdullah’s siblings moved from Afghanistan to Ireland after the Taliban regained power

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A quarter of children on Camhs list are waiting more than nine months Mary Butler says 1,110 children waiting in excess of nine months to access mental health service at end of last December

'all children referred to Camhs have moderate to severe mental health difficulties that require timely assessment and treatment'. www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/...

‘The healthcare systems coped with the pandemic, but only just. On a number of occasions, they teetered on the brink of collapse and only coped thanks to the almost superhuman efforts of healthcare workers and all the staff who support them.” - Baroness Hallet’

"AI cannot coexist with education. It can only degrade it."

US attacks on Cuban medical missions risk damaging healthcare for poor people in developing countries The US is determined to starve Cuba of the revenues it raises from exporting healthcare workers.

The US is determined to starve Cuba of the revenues it raises from exporting healthcare workers.

The NCHD taskforce recommendations aimed to significantly improve NCHDs’ working lives. Catherine Reilly examines what has been delivered

https://bit.ly/3N7Lt79

@IMO_IRL @HSE_HR @roinnslainte @NDTP_HSE @eyedoctorsIRL

‘How can they put us out on the street?’: Sligo retirement village residents face eviction Landlord of six houses in Sonas development told tenants, aged between their 50s and 80s, they must leave by June

‘How can they put us out on the street?’: Sligo retirement village residents face eviction

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Consultant in Middle East providing online psychiatric care to young people in Kerry Health committee told seven consultant psychiatrists, none of whom are permanent, covering 3.7 whole-time equivalent roles in county

Consultant in Middle East providing online psychiatric care to young people in Kerry

Volume 36 Issue Supplement_1 | European Journal of Public Health | Oxford Academic The official journal of the European Public Health Association. Publishes papers in public health from social medicine, epidemiology, health services research, management, ethics and law, health econo...

It’s part of an excellent special edition focused on the health workforce academic.oup.com/eurpub/issue...

‘Why wouldn’t I want to go?’: doctor migration, retention, return, and Ireland’s future medical workforce Abstract. Health workforce shortages pose a challenge to European health systems. Challenging working conditions in healthcare were intensified by the glob

Delighted to see this paper in print. It’s on doctor retention, doctor migration and the challenges of working in a health system under strain academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic... #DrRetention

Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks' estate over use of her 'stolen' cells to advance medicine Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and...

Justice sure took a long while…

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The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Why generational differences are a distraction in your workplace The temptation to explain workplace challenges through generational narratives is understandable, but it may be misplaced

Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: why using generational differences to explain workplace challenges may be misplaced. By @marianchenry.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Cut in funding to HSE capital plan shows Government is not serious about building health service capacity - The Labour Party Cut in funding to HSE capital plan shows Government is not serious about building health service capacity - The Labour Party Stagnant funding and ambition in HSE capital plan with a €14 million cut in...

This is crazy- there’s a cut to HSE capital plan this year

Rising population, more complexity of care & yet less money going into hospital beds, equipment and IT

Dept of Health’s own bed plan says it needs to build 2,900 by 2031
But plans only 143 new beds this year 🙄

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The Irish Times view on the north Kerry Camhs report: a vital lack of clinical resouces Many of the failings can be linked back, at least in part , to a lack of consultant psychiatrists

the north Kerry Camhs report: ‘there is still no full-time consultant psychiatrist for the county, which should have a compliment of four consultants. The gap is being met by “input” from consultants from other regions’

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What can be done to improve shambolic mental health service for younger people in Kerry? It is somehow ironic that the services have succeeded in substantially reducing the use of physical restraint, yet the entire system continues under this restraining governance model

What can be done to improve shambolic mental health service for younger people in Kerry?

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Review finds 209 children at risk of potential harm in north Kerry mental health services

Irish medics working in Australia Ireland trains them, Australia recruits them. At a time when thousands of posts remain vacant across the HSE, increasing numbers of Irish doctors and nurses are choosing to work down under. Our report...

Good to see a focus on health worker emigration to Australia today on @rteradio1.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Why are only 12% of radiographers satisfied with their jobs? High workload and under-appreciation are driving burnout, which may explain why over 300,000 Irish patients are currently waiting for diagnostic scans

Why are only 12% of radiographers satisfied with their jobs? High workload and under-appreciation are driving burnout, which may explain why over 300,000 Irish patients are currently waiting for diagnostic scans, writes Mark McEntee @ucc.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Opinion: Ireland doesn’t learn from infrastructure failures. We repeat them Ireland’s children deserve a world-class hospital. Instead, they’re getting a €2.2 billion building paired with a €362 million digital gamble managed by an organisation that can’t ensure doctors recei...

On CHI: 'The HSE will oversee implementation of Ireland’s most ambitious healthcare IT project at an organisation it is simultaneously integrating, while attempting to move into a building that doesn’t exist. This is governance architecture designed for failure'
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