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Tony O’Brien: Playing the Covid blame game won’t help us to deal with the next health crisis

Let’s not waste time pretending there was a ‘perfect’ way our leaders could have handled the pandemic – we need real learning, not...

11.03.2023 5

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Tony O’Brien: Organised racism poses a clear and present danger

The government must address the valid concerns of ordinary citizens around issues such as housing policy and access to healthcare and prevent...

26.02.2023 10

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Tony O’Brien: We must not sleepwalk into a GP crisis in Irish healthcare

Access to GP care remains relatively good in this country, but with factors like natural ageing, burnout and the corporatisation of GP care, we should...

12.02.2023 9

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Tony O’Brien: Donnelly must avoid backlash to proposed consultants’ contract

In bypassing the relevant bodies before they have completed their member consultation processes, the Minister for Health is taking a huge gamble

21.01.2023 10

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Tony O’Brien: Empty sanitiser dispensers a fitting symbol of politicians’ short memory

Our politicians behave as if there is nothing between a complete lockdown and pretending that Covid has gone away, but they are totally wrong

08.01.2023 7

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Tony O’Brien: He got his wish to keep his job in health, but now Donnelly must produce results

Lengthening waiting lists, record high trolley counts and too few healthcare staff are just some of the problems that the minister needs to deal with...

24.12.2022 6

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Tony O’Brien: Our medicines system would be better off without the HSE, and the HSE without it

Under-resourced and overly complicated bureaucratic, the drugs approval and reimbursement process is both a hidden waiting list and the likely subject...

10.12.2022 8

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Our ‘hidden waiting list’ of delays in access to medicines is costing lives

An independent review of our entire drugs reimbursement system is urgently needed as patients wait far longer here for new drugs than in most of...

27.11.2022 10

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Tony O’Brien: Lack of accountability will doom Sláintecare’s regional system to failure

Five years on from the launch of Sláintecare, there is still no plan to legislate for the establishment of regional health areas as entities distinct...

30.10.2022 6

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Tony O’Brien: HSE’s more honest winter plan avoids the ritual pain points of bogus targets

Unusually, this year health minister Stephen Donnelly has produced a transparent list of funded initiatives that, in the short to medium term, are...

15.10.2022 4

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Tony O’Brien: Donnelly gets rough end of budget stick as grand health plan at a standstill

Cancer programmes and dental health largely overlooked, funding for new medicines reduced and an under-resourced GP system all point to a budget that...

02.10.2022 5

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