Health Board

A round-up of upcoming events nationwide

• Healthcare in Ireland: Good If You Can Afford It?is the title of the Irish Times/Pfizer health forum, being held in Limerick Institute of Technology this evening. Among the speakers will be Labour's spokeswoman on health, Jan O'Sullivan, Dr John Barton, consultant cardiologist at Portiuncula Hospital, Co Galway, and Ciaran O'Neill, professor of health technology assessment, Department of Economics, NUI Galway. Admission is free. To register, e-mail healthforum@oligvy.com or phone Orla Dormer on 01-6690030.

• National Breastfeeding Week begins on Friday with health promotion departments and health centres throughout the country offering breastfeeding support materials to women. See breastfeeding.ie or tel: 1850-241850. A Friends of Breastfeeding art exhibition will tour the country during the week. For more details, visit friendsofbreastfeeding.ie.

• The dental hospitals at Cork University Dental School in Wilton, Cork, and in Lincoln Place, Dublin 2, will be open tomorrow for free, painless, mouth examinations and information on mouth, head and neck cancer. No appointment necessary.

• Global Emergency Care Skills (gecs.ie) is a charity which sends health professionals to areas of need in Africa. Join the charity in a 10km charity fun run in Phoenix Park on Saturday. Registration from 9am at the Papal Cross.

• Post-graduate healthcare professionals can explore career options in the UK, Australia, Canada and Saudi Arabia at health recruitment exhibitions in the Silver Springs Hotel, Cork, on Tuesday, October 5th, and in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin on Thursday, October 7th, 11am to 7pm each day. For details, see healthrecruitmentexpo.com

sthompson@irishtimes.com