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RTE.ie: Cowen hints at medical card climbdown
Wicklow :: Ireland | about 1 year ago
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owen hints at medical card rethink Saturday, 18 October 2008 08:04 Taoiseach Brian Cowen has said he will set up a process in the coming weeks with the Irish Medical Organisation to try to change the structure of the new medical card scheme.
Tags: ireland, medical cards, Brian Cowen, Joe Behan TD, taoiseach brian, Mr Cowen, cards scheme, resigns letter, Action Ireland, automatic entitlement
Independent, Ireland: Resign now . . . Operation . . . Lenihanist . . . Protest
Dublin :: Ireland | about 1 year ago
Credibility They should all do the decent thing and resign. lHow sad that Brian Lenihan Jr has savaged the over-70s with medical cards, when some of these were the same taxpayers who had to pay for his father's serious operation at the Mayo Clinic in America after...
Tags: Fianna Fail, medical cards, Ireland
Voters 'will snub party' over medical card fiasco
Dublin :: Ireland | about 1 year ago
Credibility Fianna Fail backbencher Noel O'Flynn last night claimed voters were turning against the party because of the "badly handled" proposal to radically overhaul medical cards. The Cork North-Central TD said the whole affair was now a "PR disaster" for the...
Tags: medical cards, Health Minister Mary Harney, Fianna Fail, 70s medical
HSE staff targeted with 'early retirement'
Dublin :: Ireland | about 1 year ago
Credibility but Finance Minister Brian Lenihan yesterday dodged giving any details of how many of the packages will be offered. Health Minister Mary Harney also said the details of the scheme had yet to be finalised. The scheme is to be unveiled some time next year...
Tags: medical cards, automatic entitlement, Finance Brian Lenihan, Brian Cowen, means test, taoiseach brian, government decisions, Mr Cowen, minister brian
Over-70s will lose right to medical cards
Dublin :: Ireland | about 1 year ago
Credibility UP to 10,000 over 70s will lose out on automatic entitlement to a medical card next year as the Government puts a halt to the scheme in today's Budget. The automatic entitlement to a medical card -- regardless of means -- is now costing in the region...
Tags: medical cards, Mary Harney, Ms Harney
Report advocates wider role for nurses
Dublin :: Ireland | about 1 year ago
Credibility Nurses should take the role of leader in some primary care and clinical management teams, according to Yvonne O'Shea, chief executive of the National Council for the Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery. "It's about empowering nurses and...
Tags: health services, medical cards
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