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HSE recruitment freeze impacting stroke patients
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Ceredigion teacher suffered stroke aged 31 whilst teaching classroom full of children
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Minister McGrath announces 20 projects to be funded under Public Service Innovation Fund
20 diverse projects have successfully secured funding from this year’s call for ideas under the Public Service Innovation Fund
, an initiative of the Our Public Service 2020 reform strategy for development and innovation in the Public Service.
The Fund, which was established in 2019, is a competition designed to support innovative ideas from public service bodies to promote collaboration and new and better approaches to service delivery.
This year’s call saw a total of 279 project proposals received from organisations in all sectors of the Public Service - Civil Service, Defence Forces, Education Sector, Health Sector, Local Government, Justice Sector and Non-Commercial State Agencies.
Over half of stroke patients not arriving quickly enough to hospital for effective emergency treatment
Pilot for ambulance bypass to thrombectomy stroke centres in Dublin and Cork urged Less than half of stroke cases (49%) arrived at hospital within three hours of onset of stroke symptoms, the first Irish National Audit of Stroke Report 2019, published by the National Office of Clinical Audit today (December 16), has found. This meant that slightly over half of 4,275 cases from 20 hospitals evaluated in the audit, arrived over three hours after the onset of symptoms and were less likely to receive effective emergency treatments Key findings revealed the median time from presenting at hospital, to contact with the medical team, was 17 minutes and that two-thirds of patients were seen by a doctor within one hour of arrival at hospital.