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Health care in Ireland is delivered through public and private healthcare. The public health care system is governed by the Health Act 2004, [1] which established a new body to be responsible for providing health and personal social services to everyone living in Ireland – the Health Service Executive. The new national health service came ...
Sláintecare is a proposed reform of the healthcare system of Ireland.Pronounced / ˈ s l ɔː n tʃ ə k ɛər, ˈ s l ɑː n-/ SLAWN-chə-kair, SLAHN-, the name is derived from sláinte [ˈsˠl̪ˠaːn̠ʲtʲə], the Irish word for "health."
Health and Social Care (HSC; Irish: Sláinte agus Cúram Sóisialta) is the publicly funded healthcare system in Northern Ireland. Although having been created separately to the National Health Service (NHS), [1] it is nonetheless considered a part of the overall national health service in the United Kingdom.
The Health Service Executive (HSE) (Irish: Feidhmeannacht na Seirbhíse Sláinte) is the publicly funded healthcare system in Ireland, responsible for the provision of health and personal social services. It came into operation on 1 January 2005.
Prior to the advent of the health board system, the Health Act 1947 was the principal legislation on the State's role in the provision of healthcare in Ireland; [2] this was the act that served as the legislative basis for the Mother and Child Scheme, which was later withdrawn under Church and medical opposition.
In 1948 Dr. Noël Browne, a new T.D. for Clann na Poblachta, and a socialist, became Minister for Health in a coalition government. Browne was an admirer of Fianna Fáil's 1947 Health Act [4] and intended to implement its provisions as part of a plan to reduce the alarmingly high rate of child mortality (especially from tuberculosis) in Ireland, [5] [6] [7] modernise the Irish healthcare ...
The reduction in infant mortality between 1960 and 2008 for Ireland in comparison with France, Switzerland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Life expectancy at birth in Ireland. In 2005: [4] [5] 47.6% of Ireland's population were covered by private health insurance, and 31.9% of the population were covered by Medical Cards.
The Health Service Executive, responsible for Healthcare in the Republic of Ireland Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom National Health Service ) The existence of the two different systems is seen as a major obstacle to Irish unification by Social Democratic and Labour Party politicians.