Tag: Healthcare

Online patient records vital to a modern healthcare system

Dublin Fingal TD, Alan Farrell, has said that the report on patient records, published by HIQA, echoes his calls for online patient records as far back as 2013. Providing online patient records is a key step in delivering a modern healthcare system that will benefit patients, hospital staff and medical institutions. I first raised the need for this measure in…

Supporting Working Families in Dublin Fingal

Fine Gael’s plans to make work pay more than welfare Fine Gael TD for Dublin Fingal, Alan Farrell, today (Tuesday) said the party’s plans to support working families by making work pay include a new Working Family Payment to ensure that every parent working 15 hours or more per week takes home at least €11.75 per hour. “Fine Gael has…