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Budget watchdog projects €1 billion health overspend this year (opens the original)
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Health spending is on track to overrun by €1 billion by the end of this year, while demographic changes will make it more expensive to carry out essential services in 2027, a new report has said. The publication by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) estimates that demographic changes will lead to a 2.2 per cent increase in health spending in order to meet demand for existing levels of service (ELS). When it comes to disability services, the demographic impact means that spending in this area
‘Speech clock’ could potentially predict dementia (opens the original)
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Study suggests how ‘speech age gap’ may provide signs of cognitive and brain health decline How you speak may in the future offer clinicians a way to predict diseases like dementia, a new study suggests. The project – involving researchers from Trinity College Dublin’s Global Brain Health Institute – shows how a ‘speech clock’ that can estimate a person’s chronological age from hundreds of acoustic and linguistic characteristics of their speech. The difference between a person’s actual age and t
Numbers needing family care expected to increase by 50 per cent by 2040 – ESRI (opens the original)
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The need for family care in Ireland will increase by around half by 2040, according to a new report by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). In 2022, an estimated 123,802 people aged 50 and over received family care. The Family care in Ireland: Carers, recipients and projections report forecasts that this number will increase by between 49 and 58 per cent over the next 15 years, largely due to the country's growing older population. The ESRI notes that the projection raises signific
Dozens of children received ‘notably inferior care’ due to failings in transfer of spina bifida cases – report (opens the original)
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‘Several dozen children’ may have slipped through the cracks when spina bifida care was transferred from Crumlin to Temple Street Children's Hospitals, a scoping report into paediatric spinal care has said. The review by senior counsel Remy Farrell, set up to advise on the potential terms of reference for an inquiry into CHI services, concluded that a Commission of Investigation should be established, rather than a public tribunal. The Commission would examine four areas - one of which relates t
Nurse managers call off planned lunchtime protests (opens the original)
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Lunchtime protests planned for today have been stood down following a referral of the matter to the Labour Court. The planned dispute by around 3,500 nursing and midwifery managers and linked grades, represented by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) and SIPTU, was called off yesterday afternoon. Had it commenced, eight hospitals around the country would have been affected. The dispute relates to the implementation of a new pay and grading stru
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