Organisation: Private Hospitals Association

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<p>Jim Daly, CEO of the Private Hospitals Association (PHA), told the Irish Examiner that the existing relationship between public and private is “haphazard” and that there needed to be a strategic partnership established. File photo: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie</p>

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'Extremely busy' private hospitals cannot support public health system 'ad hoc'

Currently, the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has a panel of private hospitals where it buys up bedspace to allow people on waiting lists access to their specific treatments

<p> Jim Daly said it is "an honour" to be appointed to the role and that following Covid, it is "exciting yet challenging time in the Irish healthcare sector". File picture: Collins</p>

politics

Former Cork TD Jim Daly appointed new CEO of Private Hospitals Association

The Co Kerry consultants, based at the Bon Secours hospital in Tralee, tendered their resignations en masse on Wednesday, it has emerged.

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Kerry consultants resign from Covid-19 deal

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Use of private hospitals may be extended if Covid crisis continues beyond five months

comment-analysis

Catherine Shanahan: Crisis will level the playing field in terms of healthcare access

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Warning health insurance could increase by 50% in a decade

Reform plan would see free GP care for all

Free GP care will be extended to 500,000 people each year for five years, under an ambitious plan to reform the health service.

Wed, 31 May, 2017

Future of Healthcare report: It's in nobody’s interest to pull this apart

Devising a cross-party health strategy was a very good idea. It did away with the need for opposition politicians to pick apart a vision for the simple selfish reason that it wasn’t their own, writes Catherine Shanahan.

Wed, 31 May, 2017

Third of people saw ‘abuse of elderly in nursing homes’

A significant number of people have observed physical or emotional abuse in nursing homes.

Tue, 09 May, 2017

‘No public beds for private patients’

Private hospitals can alleviate the huge pressure on public hospitals by taking their private patients.

Tue, 02 May, 2017

Bid to cut infection risk in hospitals by increasing number of national standards

The State’s health services watchdog wants to increase, from 12 to 31, the number of national standards for the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections in acute public hospitals.

Tue, 11 Oct, 2016

Private hospitals ‘should address’ waiting lists

Hospital waiting lists could be slashed if the Government agreed a five-year plan paying private medics to deal with the overflow, it has been claimed.

Tue, 26 Apr, 2016

Private hospitals group claims they offer 'best value' solution to cut waiting lists

Hospital waiting lists could be slashed if the Government agreed a five-year plan paying private medics to deal with the overflow, it has been claimed.

Mon, 25 Apr, 2016