Hiqa to begin inspection of centres for children and adults with disabilitiesRequirement to meet 60 standards of care hailed as ’landmark moment’for sectorTue May 14 2013 - 13:03
Green light today for six hospital groupsHospital plan involves creation of tiered structure with four ‘super-hospitals’ at topTue May 14 2013 - 01:00
Pharmacists criticise lack of visionReport critical of career structures, IT systems and premisesTue May 14 2013 - 01:00
Colm McCarthy opposes private patient charge planEconomist warns of 25 per cent rise in premiums if charges imposed in public hospitalsTue May 14 2013 - 01:00
Swine flu pandemic cost State €70 millionReport calls for “proportionate” response to future crises as many vaccines left unusedTue May 14 2013 - 01:00
HSE staff offered paid three-year career breakHealth workers to be offered €12,000 a year to leave for three years in bid to cut costsWed May 8 2013 - 06:00
GP card plan for long-term illness to be droppedMinisters seeking new ways to phase in extension of free GP care for allWed May 8 2013 - 06:00
Statutory code planned for drink salesCabinet still at odds over proposals to ban sports sponsorship by alcohol companiesTue May 7 2013 - 06:00
Law change will enable consumers to buy common drugs through internet pharmacyOnline pharmacy will operate only within the Republic and patients will not be able to legally purchase drugs on the internet from overseas suppliersTue May 7 2013 - 06:00
Plan for hospital groups to be announcedConcessions made to Waterford campaigners to allay concerns in southeastMon May 6 2013 - 17:04
Abortion Bill ‘potentially menacing’, says BradyCardinal Brady accuses Government of denying fundamental religious freedomsSat May 4 2013 - 06:00
Government indicates it will not be influenced by bishops’ intervention on abortion lawCardinal warns TDs of their “solemn duty” to oppose legislationSat May 4 2013 - 05:55
Kenny stresses law on abortion not being alteredTaoiseach says proposed legislation ‘will at last bring certainty to pregnant women and legal clarity to medical personnel’Thu May 2 2013 - 06:00
‘No question’ of late terminations, says hospital masterDr Mahony says Bill requires doctors to do everything they can to save a baby’s lifeThu May 2 2013 - 06:00
Compromise Bill doomed to disappoint someThe careful new Bill adds little to the current legal position on abortionThu May 2 2013 - 01:00
Fine Gael TDs and Senators shifting towards supporting abortion legislationParliamentary party holds key meeting on proposed legislationWed May 1 2013 - 08:33
Severe penalties for under-18 sunbed useEye protection and ban on internet hire of sunbeds to feature in legislationWed May 1 2013 - 06:00
Obstetricians challenge Boylan inquest evidenceAll obstetric units in Ireland need to reflect on findings of inquest, says groupTue Apr 30 2013 - 22:28
Health professionals await decision on further fee cutsRepresentative groups will have to decide what action to take against cutsTue Apr 30 2013 - 06:00
Medicines board says it has ‘no immediate issues’ with blood thinners despite reactionsDirector of the National Centre for Pharmaco-economics says he has ‘real concerns’ about new generation of anti-coagulantsTue Apr 30 2013 - 06:00
Hospital hygiene standards criticisedHiqa raised concerns about hand hygiene at Cork, Letterkenny, Wexford, Sligo hospitalsSat Apr 27 2013 - 06:00
HSE terminates funding for patient groupClaims that removal of grants is attempt to stifle independent scrutiny of health serviceSat Apr 27 2013 - 06:00
Irish obstetricians have heavier workloadConsultants deliver more than twice as many babies as counterparts in ScotlandSat Apr 27 2013 - 06:00
Troika demand further health savingsCommittee told HSE is running under budget for this year but challenges lies aheadFri Apr 26 2013 - 06:00
North’s child cardiac cases to be treated in DublinReilly calls for greater North-South co-operation on healthFri Apr 26 2013 - 05:00
HSE head concerned over pay savings after Croke Park collapseNot appropriate to seek savings in other areas at this stage - Tony O’BrienThu Apr 25 2013 - 12:14
Health watchdog proposes referral thresholdsHiqa says proposal will cut waiting times for common operationsThu Apr 25 2013 - 07:00
Dublin doctor earned over €700,000 from HSE for treating medical-card patientsSix other doctors earned more than €600,000 for their practices in 2011Thu Apr 25 2013 - 06:00
Government publishes ‘positive ageing’ strategyAgeing not just a health issue, says Minister Kathleen LynchWed Apr 24 2013 - 15:33
Hepatitis C found among Irish people who travelled overseas for dental treatmentIrish Haemophilia Society says disease is a ‘silent epidemic’Wed Apr 24 2013 - 06:00
Industry efforts to curb drinking a ‘joke’Discharge rates for alcoholic liver disease rose 247% for 15-34 year-olds from 1995-2007Tue Apr 23 2013 - 13:00
Inspection finds major deficiencies in quality procedures at blood transfusion serviceTue Apr 23 2013 - 06:00
Tribunal corrects Richardson referenceInquiry now says former FF fundraiser not questioned about £39,000 in accountMon Apr 22 2013 - 05:00
‘Horrendous, barbaric, inhumane’, Savita’s husband gives his verdictJury delivers unanimous verdict of medical misadventureSat Apr 20 2013 - 07:47
Praveen Halappanavar's lawyers urged coroner to make strong recommendationsUniversity Hospital Galway says blaming staff ‘unjustified’Sat Apr 20 2013 - 06:00
GP with legal expertise has 20 years experience as a coronerDr Ciarán MacLoughlin won praise for his handling of eight day hearingSat Apr 20 2013 - 06:00
The systems, not individuals, to blame?Savita inquest could not make findings of civil or criminal liabilityFri Apr 19 2013 - 22:36
Savita Halappanavar jury returns unanimous medical misadventure verdictHusband criticises ‘barbaric and inhumane’ care and says he has yet to find out why his wife diedFri Apr 19 2013 - 11:00
Limited number of verdicts available to Savita juryVerdict could prove an anticlimax but value of inquest is in evidence heardFri Apr 19 2013 - 06:00
Expert tells inquest Savita had worst case of sepsis he had seen in 30 yearsDr Peter Kelehan says Savita Halappanavar had classic signs of septic abortionThu Apr 18 2013 - 19:15
Annual breast cancer surveillance for at-risk women recommendedWatchdog says screening should be granted to under-50s at higher risk over genetics or family historyThu Apr 18 2013 - 13:00
Savita died of septic shock, pathologist tells hearingVerdict in Halappanavar inquest expected tomorrowThu Apr 18 2013 - 12:00
Laws, not doctors, to blame for Savita Halappanavar death, says expert witnessDr Peter Boylan gives politicians plenty to think about on restrictive abortion lawsThu Apr 18 2013 - 06:00
Abortion law pressure likely after expert’s evidence at inquestDr Peter Boylan says Halappanavar likely to be alive if termination was providedThu Apr 18 2013 - 06:00
‘Highly likely’ Halappanavar would be alive if termination given, inquest toldFormer master of Holles Street says obstetricians working in a legal vacuum as to when termination can be performedWed Apr 17 2013 - 10:57
Struggling to force the Sahara back as climate change wreaks havoc in SenegalDesertification and rising sea levels pose serious threats to life in AfricaMon Apr 15 2013 - 06:00
Reilly urged to approve costly lung disease drugFibrosis treatment would cost €32,700 per patient but doubts exist over its effectivenessMon Apr 15 2013 - 06:00
Rising temperatures devastating Africa’s small farmersSenegal, democratic and stable, used to be a success storySat Apr 13 2013 - 06:40
Expert critical of Savita treatmentMicrobiologist says hospital staff should have used different antibiotics, kept better recordsSat Apr 13 2013 - 06:00