Statement from Jonathan Irwin CEO and Founder of the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation “The concerns expressed by the National Association of General Practitioners in Dublin today regarding free GP care for under 6’s are totally justified. Giving this population an automatic entitlement, while their brothers and sisters in the same age group, children withRead more
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“A fascinating and heart-breaking story” according to Miriam O’Callaghan Jonathan Irwin is best known as the man who, following the tragic death of his son at 22 months old, set up the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation so that other parents would not have to go through the hardship his family did to nurse theirRead more
“On behalf of the 300 children under our wing we have been and will continue to be busy on the medical card crisis. Our nurses have formally requested a meeting with Minister Reilly to discuss what his Department calls “the hard cases” which we have documented and to demand that he & his cabinet colleaguesRead more
OUR FIGHT FOR MEDICAL CARDS CONTINUES! “On behalf of the 300 precious children with life limiting or life threatening conditions under our wing, we pledge to continue the fight for automatic medical cards ALL THE WAY. We won’t get sidetracked by the €2.7 million we must raise every year to keep our service going. ThisRead more
Jack & Jill Foundation specialist children’s nurses from all over the country use platform of Sam’s Annual Lunch today to urge Minister for Health to redesign the broken system of discretionary medical cards! Jack & Jill specialist children’s nurses are using the very special occasion of Baby Sam’s 7th Annual Lunch in aid of theRead more
The families of the 300 children around the country supported by the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation are being put through torture on medical cards, endless form filling, reviews, rejection letters and stress. Follow Jonathan on Twitter And here we have the HSE in Leinster House today repeating their well crafted holding statement on medicalRead more
