Only 285 occupational cases of Covid-19 were reported to the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) by health and long-term care settings between 24 November 2020 – when a legal reporting requirement came into place – and 29 January 2021. This figure is substantially lower than the 5,325 healthcare worker infections reported as…
Cancer services have been profoundly affected by the emergence of Covid-19. Paul Mulholland charts the response of services to the pandemic and examines how longstanding issues around staffing and drug reimbursement have complicated the picture