February 4, 2012

Health plans in a chronic state

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Are the long-promised plans to move towards chronic disease management in primary care in a chronic condition, asks Dara Gantly.

Can you tell me how to get to 2013

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Dara Gantly looks at the likelihood the HSE will achieve the ambitious targets outlined in its Service Plan for 2012.

Our friends in the North

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Dara Gantly looks at what we might learn from the latest overhaul of the health service in Northern Ireland.

Plans of mice and men

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It has been a difficult start to the year for the health insurance sector, after a long and tumultuous month and an even longer 2011, punctuated as it was by numerous premium increases. Not that the rest of 2012 is going to be any easier for either insurer or insured.

Ringing in the changes

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Will the New Year see yet another ‘new’ health service administration emerge, asks Dara Gantly.

The two wise men

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Dara Gantly wonders whether the two ‘wise men’ from the east will come bearing gifts for hospitals in the West and Mid-West.

A word to the wise

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Dara Gantly on the kites and clues ahead of the budget that indicate which way the wind might blow for our health service.

Buttering up the EU

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Dara Gantly on the latest ambitious targets to cut CVD rates.

Health’s lucky numbers?

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Dara Gantly wonders if the Government is playing the lottery with our health infrastructure needs

Performance anxiety

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Dara Gantly analyses the latest focus on doctors’ performance and the complications and potential pitfalls ahead.

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