IPA in the media
OCTOBER 2022
Headline: INMO warns of 'dangerous understaffing' in Mater Hospital
Date: 15th of October 2022
Website: https://extra.ie/
IPA Response in the Article: 'If we start having a build-up of COVID and influenza, that's a sort of double whammy on the system. We know how the system can be affected by that from our experiences with COVID. The impacts are that it's unsafe for patients and staff when you have emergency departments which are overcrowded. On top of that, you have patients who have been waiting maybe a year for an operation, which has been cancelled as the bed is needed by somebody else.'
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Headline: Medicines shortage at crisis point with supplies of more than 160 vital drugs dangerously low
Date: 9th of October 2022
Website: https://extra.ie/
IPA Response in the Article: "Irish Patients’ Association co-founder Stephen McMahon said the medicine shortage is ‘worrying’. He said: ‘It’s particularly so for patients with chronic illness. One thing we’re always told as patients is to take your medicine regularly, don’t skip it – and with good reason. But here are patients who are having to do that very thing.’
Mr McMahon also pointed to price differences between branded and generic drugs as a possible cause why some facilities, particularly private facilities, might not be accessing certain drugs.
‘You could have a station where the bean counters are saying, “not those brand drugs”, [because they] are too expensive.’
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Headline: Almost 110,000 hospital appointments have been cancelled this year
Date: 6th of October 2022
Website: https://www.newstalk.com/
IPA Response in the Article: "This is not a case of patients not turning up, this is the system actually saying they're cancelling those appointments"
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Headline: Donnelly warns of COVID-19 'perfect storm' as cases rising 'considerably'
Date: 5th of October 2022
Website: https://extra.ie/
IPA Response in the Article: 'If we start having a build-up of COVID and influenza, that's a sort of double whammy on the system. We know how the system can be affected by that from our experiences with COVID. The impacts are that it's unsafe for patients and staff when you have emergency departments which are overcrowded. On top of that, you have patients who have been waiting maybe a year for an operation, which has been cancelled as the bed is needed by somebody else. The lesson we've got to learn is that it's vital that people get their booster shots. It's important that people still have time to take care of themselves. We know that the virus is out there, and for people who may have had boosters five, six or seven months ago, it's time to revisit that.'
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Headline: Patients still face months of waiting for hospital treatment
Date: 3rd of October 2022
Website: https://www.irishexaminer.com/
IPA Response in the Article: “It is good to see some progress, but in the broad scheme of things progress is glacial compared to the size of the problems for patients." "Mr Stephen Mc Mahon [sic] urged people waiting to consider the option of treatment abroad, and said doctors should discuss this more openly." "It’s not the numbers on the list, it’s the length of time people are waiting, which is more important in terms of deterioration and their condition worsening.”
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SEPTEMBER 2022
Headline: End of inpatient hospital fees for children a ‘step in the right direction’
Date: 21st of September 2022
Website: https://www.irishtimes.com/
IPA Response in the Article: "The Irish Patients Association (IPA) broadly welcomed the announcement on Wednesday but sought assurances that moves to scrap inpatient fees would not have a knock-on effect for operational funding in hospitals. “It’s especially welcome considering the way inflation has gone now [and affected] families,” said IPA director Stephen McMahon.
“In an awful lot of these cases it is people on low, middle incomes that are being [hit] by those charges so that’s welcome. “But in the end nothing is for nothing so it’s important that the hospitals are reimbursed for whatever the amount of money it was that they would have been collecting out of these charges, that they’re not penalised.” Mr McMahon also said similar concessions should be introduced for adults attending hospitals."
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Headline: Revealed: HSE’s ‘twindemic’ winter warning as Covid and flu could see more than 20,000 admitted to hospital
Date: 18th of September 2022
Website: https://www.independent.ie/
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Headline: Investigation Part 1 - Doctor shortage causing strife
Date: 14th of September 2022
Website: https://www.farmersjournal.ie/
IPA Response in the Article: "It's a major concern in the IPA that with so many GPs due to retire in the coming years that there are going to be very big [service] holes in certain parts of the country. That has to be urgently addressed now."
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NOVEMBER 2020
Headline: Mother in provision 'locked into her room
Website: https://www.independent.ie/
OCTOBER 2020
Headline: Dublin care homes hit by outbreaks
Website: https://www.independent.ie/
Headline: Patients at risk of dying
Website: https://www.echolive.ie/
SEPTEMBER 2020
Headline: Appeal to break down ‘wall of silence’ at Letterkenny hospital
Website: https://donegalnews.com/
Headline: Call for investigation into Covid-19 testing no-shows
Website: https://www.con-telegraph.ie/
Headline: There's something wrong here': Patients' association calls for investigation into Covid test no-shows
Website: https://www.irishexaminer.com/
AUGUST 2020
Headline: Calls for HSE to convene emergency taskforce and engage with healthcare staff on winter plan
Website: https://www.irishexaminer.com/
Headline: Coronavirus in Ireland – Surgery waiting list reaches over 80,000 as patient group calls on Government to act
Website: https://www.thesun.ie/
Headline: Patient perspectives on the Covid-19 response
Website: https://www.imt.ie/
JULY 2020
Headline: Experts could explain Covid-19 decisions more fully to public
Website: https://www.rte.ie/
Headline: Record numbers of patients waiting for treatment, new figures show
Website: https://www.irishtimes.com/
MAY 2020
Headline: It could take two years to clear surgery backlog caused by Covid-19
Website: http://www.midwestradio.ie/
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 14:47:54 IST
Headline: Listen: It Could Take Two Years To Clear The Backlog Of Elective Surgeries Created By Covid 19.
Website: http://kfmradio.com/
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 14:36:33 IST
Headline: Coronavirus in Ireland ? ?100m public fund injection could clear 60k non-Covid waiting list backlog, expert claims
Website: http://www.thesun.ie/
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 07:28:49 IST
Headline: Fears total focus on Covid-19 will mean a surge in deaths from other illnesses
Website: http://www.independent.ie/
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 02:37:14 IST
Headline: Fears total focus on Covid-19 will mean a surge in deaths from other illnesses
Website: http://www.independent.ie/
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 02:37:14 IST
Headline: Huge fall in non-Covid hospital admissions and attendances
Website: http://www.irishexaminer.com/
Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 15:10:54 IST
Headline: Huge fall in non-Covid hospital admissions and attendances
Website: http://www.breakingnews.ie/
Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 15:08:31 IST
APRIL 2020
Headline: Coronavirus in Ireland ? Government under fire for spin heavy and mixed messaging? response to Covid-19 outbreak
Website: http://www.thesun.ie/
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 07:15:55 IST
Headline: Patients being left in hospital for longer periods due to delay in transfer of care into nursing homes
Website: http://www.thejournal.ie/
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:18:39 IST
Headline: ' I am in pain, and because of coronavirus I have no idea when they will reschedule my hip operation'
Website: http://www.independent.ie/
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 06:27:44 IST
Headline: Campaign needed to ensure people with non-COVID19 related health issues access necessary care - Louise O'Reilly
Website: http://www.sinnfein.ie/
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 10:19:17 IST
Headline: Sickness in the shadow of pandemic: non-coronavirus patients struggle in a health system focused on Covid-19
Website: http://www.independent.ie/
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 08:47:57 IST
Headline: Coronavirus? Hundreds of strokes and heart attacks go untreated and cancer cases undiagnosed since lockdown started
Website: http://www.thesun.ie/
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 08:18:38 IST
Headline: Coronavirus in Ireland ? Patients ranked by points system weighted against elderly to decide who goes into ICU
Website: http://www.thesun.ie/
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 07:38:14 IST
Headline: Coronavirus in Ireland LIVE: Testing backlog for Covid-19 to be cleared by next week as death toll rises to 288
Website: http://www.thesun.ie/
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 13:17:10 IST
Headline: Coronavirus in Ireland ? Harris reveals close contact infection down to two but fears of surge in secondary deaths
Website: http://www.thesun.ie/
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 21:48:22 IST
Headline: Concern over dramatic fall in emergency hospital admissions Website: http://www.irishexaminer.com/
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 17:59:26
Headline: Patients being left in hospital for longer periods due to delay in transfer of care into nursing homes
Website: http://www.thejournal.ie/
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:18:39 IST
Headline: 'I am in pain, and because of Covid-19 I have no idea when they will reschedule my hip operation'
Website: http://www.independent.ie/
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 02:47:04 IST
Headline: Campaign needed to ensure people with non-COVID19 related health issues access necessary care - Louise O'Reilly
Website: http://www.sinnfein.ie/
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 10:19:17 IST
Link: http://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/56605
Headline: Sickness in the shadow of pandemic: non-coronavirus patients struggle in a health system focused on Covid-19
Website: http://www.independent.ie/
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 08:47:57 IST
Headline: Coronavirus ? Hundreds of strokes and heart attacks go untreated and cancer cases undiagnosed since lockdown started
Website: http://www.thesun.ie/
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 08:18:38 IST
Headline: Coronavirus in Ireland ? Patients ranked by points system weighted against elderly to decide who goes into ICU
Website: http://www.thesun.ie/
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 07:38:14 IST
Headline: Coronavirus in Ireland LIVE: Testing backlog for Covid-19 to be cleared by next week as death toll rises to 288
Website: http://www.thesun.ie/
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 13:17:10 IST
MARCH 2020
Headline: Insurers consider how to react to State?s co-opting of private hospitals
Website: http://www.irishtimes.com/
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 20:46:24 GMT
Headline: Almost 560,000 patients waiting for first outpatient appointment
Website: http://www.breakingnews.ie/
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 20:09:01 GMT
Headline: Coronavirus in Ireland ? Country needs to go into immediate lockdown to stop Covid-19 spread, patients? group insists
Website: http://www.thesun.ie/
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 08:38:03 GMT
Headline: Almost 560,000 patients waiting for first outpatient appointment
Website: http://www.breakingnews.ie/
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 20:09:01 GMT
Headline: Almost 560,000 patients waiting for first outpatient appointment
Website: http://www.irishexaminer.com/
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 19:59:16 GMT
Headline: 19th confirmed case of coronavirus in Republic, three new in the North
Website: http://www.irishexaminer.com/
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 20:11:12 GMT
Headline: 19th confirmed case of coronavirus in Republic; three new cases in the North
Website: http://www.breakingnews.ie/
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 20:14:19 GMT
Headline: 19th confirmed case of coronavirus in Republic; three new cases in the North
Website: http://www.beat102103.com/
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 21:28:05 GMT
Headline: 19th confirmed case of coronavirus in Ireland
Website: http://www.waterford-news.ie/
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 18:27:46 GMT
Headline: 19th confirmed case of coronavirus in Ireland
Website: http://www.waterford-news.ie/
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 18:27:46 GMT
Headline: 19th confirmed case of coronavirus in Ireland
Website: http://www.carlow-nationalist.ie/
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 18:27:46 GMT
Headline: 19th confirmed case of coronavirus in Ireland
Website: http://westernpeople.ie/
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 18:18:46 GMT
Headline: 19th confirmed case of coronavirus in Ireland
Website: http://roscommonherald.ie/
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 18:18:13 GMT
Headline: HSE lifts recruitment embargo to tackle Covid-19
Website: http://www.q102.ie/
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 17:47:25 GMT
Headline: HSE lifts recruitment embargo to tackle Covid-19
Website: http://www.q102.ie/
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 17:47:25 GMT
Headline: Visitor restrictions remain in place across Cork hospitals.
Website: http://www.96fm.ie/
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 14:49:05 GMT
FEBRUARY 2020
Headline: Covid-19: coronavirus arrives on Irish shores
Website: http://www.irishexaminer.com/
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 05:39:12 GMT
Headline: Concerns raised after Cork doctors, rather than radiographers, did x-rays on patients with coronavirus symptoms
Website: http://www.thejournal.ie/
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 00:14:33 GMT
Headline: Thousands added to hospital wait lists
Website: http://www.irishexaminer.com/
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 06:58:50 GMT
Headline: Midwives? commitment ?is being abused?
Website: http://www.irishexaminer.com/
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:59:10 GMT
JANUARY 2020
Headline: Some 45,000 taken off waiting lists last year without seeing medical specialist
Website: http://www.irishtimes.com/
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:09:01 GMT
Headline: ?Some patients should be exempt from hospital parking charges? ? IPA
Website: http://www.highlandradio.com/
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 17:27:35 GMT
Headline: Call for hospital parking charges to be abolished
Website: http://www.fm104.ie/
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 14:28:40 GMT
Headline: The Irish Patients Association calls for abolition of hospital parking fines.
Website: http://www.midwestradio.ie/
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 13:37:19 GMT
Headline: ?Some patients should be exempt from hospital parking charges? ? IPA
Website: http://www.highlandradio.com/
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 17:27:35 GMT
Headline: Figures reveal UHG made 1.4 million euro in car parking charges last year
Website: http://connachttribune.ie/
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 13:17:33 GMT
Headline: Overcrowding task force to lose powers
Website: http://www.independent.ie/
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 13:08:50 GMT
Headline: Slight drop in numbers waiting for hospital appointment, NTPF figures show
Website: http://www.newstalk.com/
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:28:08 GMT
Headline: Listen: 9,310 People On Waiting Lists At Naas General In December.
Website: http://kfmradio.com/
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:27:28 GMT
Headline: Limerick mum whose daughter died after spending over 23 hours in A&E reiterates call for Simon Harris to resign
Website: http://www.thesun.ie/
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 07:18:59 GMT
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Headline: Call for Emergency Department Taskforce to meet more often
Website: http://www.highlandradio.com/
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 14:47:01 GMT
Headline: Government must stop blaming doctors for worst trolley numbers ever recorded ? Donnelly
Website: http://www.fiannafail.ie/
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 12:17:26 GMT
