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Shauna Bowers

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Shauna Bowers

    EU plan to share doctors’ professional history in crackdown on struck-off medics overseas (opens the original)

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    EU member states will be able to check the professional history of doctors from other European countries under new proposals being examined to crack down on struck off doctors working in different jurisdictions. Last year, The Irish Times revealed doctors who are professionally sanctioned overseas, including for sexual misconduct and patient harm, are able to retain their Irish licences without the public being aware of their offences. The investigation identified 11 doctors who have faced serio

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Shauna Bowers

    CHI Tallaght reprimanded over concerns about confidentiality of children’s personal data (opens the original)

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    The State’s data watchdog has reprimanded Tallaght children’s hospital for “failing to ensure” healthcare records were stored and retained in a confidential manner. Last year, The Irish Times revealed that the Data Protection Commission had conducted an unannounced inspection of a shared office for non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHD) on the first floor of the hospital on July 16th, 2025. It is understood the door to the shared office – where hundreds of patient charts were stored â€

  3. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Shauna Bowers

    Medicines watchdog receives 24 reports of weight-loss jab side effects related to vision (opens the original)

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    There were 24 reports of suspected side effects relating to vision from weight-loss jabs over the past 3½ years, according to the medicines watchdog. The medications, also known as GLP-1s, contain substances such as semaglutide, tirzepatide and liraglutide. They are marketed under different brand names, including Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro, and are authorised prescription-only medicines in the EU for the treatment of patients within the approved indications for weight management or type 2 dia

  4. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Shauna Bowers

    Children’s hospital contractor Bam submits claims for €983m over disputed costs (opens the original)

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    The contractor behind the new national children’s hospital has submitted claims for an additional €983 million over disputed costs incurred during the project, new correspondence shows. The construction of the facility on the St James’s Hospital site in Dublin began in 2016. The subsequent years have been marked by ballooning costs – from €987 million to €2.24 billion, with repeated delays exacerbated by an increasingly fractious relationship between the builders, Bam, and the board

  5. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Shauna Bowers

    ‘Worse than we feared’: Patient advocacy groups criticise proposed scoliosis and spina bifida inquiry (opens the original)

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    Patient advocacy groups have criticised the proposed commission of investigation into the care received by children with scoliosis and spina bifida, describing it as “extraordinarily narrow”. The Government last year agreed to hold a statutory inquiry into spina bifida and scoliosis services following a number of controversies at the children’s hospital group, including unauthorised implantation of springs in children with scoliosis, alleged waiting-list irregularities and unnecessary hip

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