{"id":670761,"date":"2026-10-31T10:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670761\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T10:12:09","slug":"minister-for-healths-disregard-for-patient-safety-is-terrifying-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670761\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister for Health\u2019s disregard for patient safety is terrifying \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 The querying of the legality of Minister for Health <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/jennifer-carroll-macneill\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/jennifer-carroll-macneill\">Jennifer Carroll MacNeill<\/a>\u2018s HSE recruitment restrictions by the Labour Party is a huge relief and feels like the first ounce of common sense seen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The lack of regard the Minister is showing for patient safety with her authoritarian diktat is terrifying, and should have every voter in the land up in arms. Unfilled clinical positions will result in poorer patient care and outcomes, as well as an increase in emigration of newly qualified healthcare professionals. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">DR MARY SCRIVEN WALSH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Athlone,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Co Westmeath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 The querying of the legality of Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill\u2018s HSE recruitment restrictions by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60,1421,6189],"class_list":["post-670761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill","tag-labour-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}