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The Rotunda Hospital has indicated it will be in a position to provide abortion services, provided it is given the necessary resources by the Government. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

Abortions will be free but some patients will have to pay for related drugs

Draft plans on terminations also call for conscientious objectors to opt out in 'timely manner'

Dr Peter Boylan said that if the service is not introduced women will still have to go to the UK for terminations and any delay would not be fair. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Boylan adamant abortion services should go ahead in New Year

Medic responds to complaints from doctors that process is being rushed

A pro-choice march in Dublin, 2015. Photograph: Eric Luke

Obstetricians want delay to abortion services over safety fears

Health professionals have ‘serious concerns’ January 1st introduction is being rushed

Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Possibility of over 1,000 people on trolleys is truly terrifying

Analysis: Woefully inadequate winter plan and extra funding are coming late in the day

Radiologists have said all public hospital radiology departments are under pressure due to the demands placed on them. File photograph: iStock

Radiologists call for greater support for smaller hospitals in wake of Kerry report

Small hospital radiology departments under pressure due to inadequate staffing

The review of 46,234 CT scans, ultrasounds and chest X-rays concerned the work of a single consultant radiologist who no longer works at the hospital. Photograph: Flashfilm/Getty Images

Scan reading errors at Kerry hospital linked to four premature deaths

Audit finds 11 patients suffered delayed diagnosis and serious impact on their health

General manager of UHK Fearghal Grimes, UHK clinical director Dr Claire O’Brien, chairman of the review Dr Gerard O’Callaghan and Celia Cronin of the South/South West Hospital Group presenting their findings yesterday. Photograph: Domnick Walsh/Eye Focus

How problems addressed remains key to progress in health

Regrettable action not taken sooner following review of 46,000 scans in Kerry

The review was the largest ever conducted of X-rays and other tests in the Irish hospital system.

Kerry scans review finds 11 cancer patients had a delayed diagnosis

Four of the 11 patients who had a delayed diagnosis have died since delay was identified

The HSE has refunded the €750 in excess charges paid by the man following the investigation by the Ombudsman, Peter Tyndall. File photograph: iStock

Man overcharged for hospital stay gets refund after Ombudsman investigation

Investigation revealed there is no integrated payment system in HSE for managing hospital charges nationally

The policy for provision of dental services is being comprehensively updated for the first time in 25 years. Photograph: John Giles/PA Wire

Dental care reform a threat to dentists’ skills, RCSI warns

Oral health policy fails to offer postgraduate and lifelong learning for dental practitioners

Dr Peter Boylan acknowledged that GPs were in difficult circumstances and needed help. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Ultrasound scanners not available ‘at every crossroads’, Dr Peter Boylan says

Not every woman seeking a termination will require an ultrasound scan, medic confirms

Attempts by ICGP chief executive Fintan Foy to speak at the meeting were repeatedly interrupted.

Conscientious objection: GP abortion meeting ‘bitter, chaotic, uncivil’

Dozens of doctors walked out of event claiming ‘serious crisis’ over abortion services

Dr Peter Boylan said expectations had to be kept in context, and that women in other countries often had to travel “hundreds of miles” to access such services. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Abortion guidelines for doctors will not be ready for rollout date

Peter Boylan says ‘inevitably, there will be problems’ and nobody should expect ‘perfection’ from service

Nurses and doctors in Irish hospitals have been urged not to call patients ‘love’ or ‘dear’, the HSE has said. File photograph: Getty Images

Nurses and doctors told not to call patients ‘love’ or ‘dear’

HSE’s new recommendations for hospital staff criticised as ‘political correctness gone mad’

The HSE said it had set up a client services unit in the National Screening Service to “ensure the timely provision of cervical screening records to women or their legal representatives”.

At least 18 affected by CervicalCheck issue still waiting for slides

‘Small number’ of slides being processed and will be released shortly, HSE says

Tory Island, Co Donegal. The HSE focuses on the provision of health services to nearly 3,000 people living on 18 islands off the coast of Ireland that are not connected by a land causeway with the mainland. Photograph: Fáilte Ireland

Health services on offshore islands need range of improvements

HSE review finds that islanders find the services fragmented and unpredictable

Minister for Health Simon Harris said doctors had a right to conscientious objection but “women also have a right to healthcare” and “one right cannot trump another”.

HSE ordered to ensure abortion availability from January 1st

Department asks all 19 maternity units for updates on abortion services rollout

Numerous studies worldwide have linked outbreaks of bacterial infection in hospitals to contamination of wash basin drains and U-bends. Photograph: Getty Images

Dublin team invents way to drive superbugs around the U-bend

System developed at dental hospital decontaminates wash basins and plumbing

Minister for Health Simon Harris has asked the Medicines Management Programme to look at putting measures in place to expand access to Pembro. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Access to new drug to be extended to all cervical cancer sufferers

Pembro to be made available to all clinically suitable women with cervical cancer

The National Maternity Hospital, on Holles Street, Dublin 2. On Sunday, Mr Harris insisted he was not “meddling” in the €300 million move to Dublin 4. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

Plan to move National Maternity Hospital to St Vincent’s stalemated

Simon Harris wants a public-interest director on board of the new institution

Minister for Health Simon Harris says in the context of abortion services a ‘conscientious objection is that you don’t have to be involved in a procedure’. Photograph: Collins

At least 40 GPs walk out of meeting on abortion services

Doctors have concerns over issue of conscientious objection and workload on others

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