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Nine out of 10 people in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area reported their health as being good or very good, the highest in the State, according to the CSO. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

People in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area report best health

Census shows difference in professional and unskilled workers’ perceptions of health

File image of a hospital ward. File photograph: Alan Betson

Public hospitals have spent €3m on debt collectors since 2011

New figures show HSE hospitals were owed €40.1m in unpaid charges at the end of 2016

Centre records showed that gardaí were called on 11 occasions to support the management of behaviour. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

Gardaí called to help staff with children at residential centre

Workers needed Garda assistance 11 times and locked themselves in office twice

Nursing staff in Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

INMO urges funding recommended in Slaintecare Report

Union wants increase to the capacity of the health service, in terms of staffing and beds

Samples of standardised packaging of tobacco products, which has been approved by the Government. File photographer: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

Plain cigarette packaging comes into force

Ireland becomes fourth country in world to remove logos from tobacco packaging

There will be no new overall contract for the provision of GP services negotiated with the Government this year, the IMO has signalled. File photograph: Hugh Macknight/PA Wire

New GP contract will not be negotiated this year, union warns

IMO also says extending the number covered by free GP care scheme is ‘not a priority’

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Simon Harris calls bishop’s comments on HPV vaccine ‘ignorant’

Bishop Phonsie Cullinan had said the HPV vaccine ‘could’ make girls more promiscuous

Frank Brennan, Tom Hope, Rhonda Nally, Jim O’Connor, Ciara Devine, and Gerard Ingoldsby. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

New drugs switch focus to living long term with cancer

Irish Cancer Society’s national conference hears positive stories of living with cancer

Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Seamus McCarthy was released on Friday. File photograph: David Sleator

Health bodies found non-compliant with pay, procurement rules

Comptroller and Auditor General says issues highlight governance problems across sector

Minister for Health Simon Harris complained to HSE director Tony O’Brien about health events and launches taking place ‘without his office being informed in advance’. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Health bosses ordered to compile lists of PR events for Harris

HSE director says the Minister complained about not being notified of launches

Patients on trolleys “have very poor or no dignity, privacy, confidentiality, suffer constant light and regular noise resulting in sleep deprivation which amounts to sensory torture, and are offered poor standards of infection control”. Photograph: Getty Images

Another patient death on trolley is ‘only a matter of time’

Doctor warns of ‘dangerous’ overcrowding in emergency department of Tallaght Hospital

Some of the patients, who have genetic emphysema, have been on Respreeza for up to a decade.

Severe lung disease patients ‘distraught’ as access to drug ends

Manufacturer to end compassionate use programme for ‘life-changing’ drug Respreeza

The Catholic Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Phonsie Cullinan. File photograph: John Mc Elroy

Bishop renews attack on HPV vaccine despite HSE warning women’s lives in danger

Bishop: ‘We have to do better than to give our boys condoms and our girls injections’

Elaine Howley, policy and advocacy director with the National Council for the Blind of Ireland: “Those of us who live with visual impairment incur extra costs every week so that we can just live ordinary lives.” Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Blind people need €45 a week extra for basic standard of living

Health, communications and household items more costly for visually impaired

Bishop Phonsie Cullinan, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, says parents are being pressurised into agreeing to have the Gardasil HPV vaccine administered to their daughters.

Catholic bishop claims cervical cancer vaccine ‘only 70% safe’

Gardasil ‘lulling’ young girls into casual sex, according to Bishop Phonsie Cullinan

X-rays of the spine of a child with scoliosis after and before surgery.

Children with scoliosis ‘will have to go abroad’ for operations

HSE is set to miss target of reducing surgery waiting time

The drugs, for conditions such as cancer, heart disease and depression, will be made available from November 1st. Photograph: PA Wire

Nine new drugs to be made available from November 1st

Labour TD Alan Kelly criticises HSE of making ‘false’ announcement in July

Minister for Health Simon Harris at the health committee on Wednesday

Harris says Government will not cover €100m HSE overspend

Cost overrun will go forward as a charge next year

Karen Keely with her partner Kevin and her three adult sons Lee, Lorcan and Harry, who have birth defects after she was prescribed Epilim throughout her pregnancies. Photograph: Alan Betson

Irish woman tells EU hearing of epilepsy drug’s harmful effects

Karen Keely says sodium valproate caused all three of her sons to suffer birth defects

Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin had the highest number of cancelled surgeries, at 262, according to HSE figures. Photograph: Getty Images

Almost 900 heart and chest surgeries cancelled in 21 months

New data shows a ‘concerning’ number of surgeries cancelled for non-medical reasons

Ciara (9) and Luke (4) Willetts, from Shankill in Dublin who both have PKU.

PKU case study: Ciara (9) and Luke (4) Willetts

‘Feeding them is a huge challenge every day,’ says Dublin mother

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