Department of Health

The European Commission privately warned the Government two years ago that legislation to set minimum alcohol prices and lay down mandatory labelling (...)

Public and private hospitals could face closure if they continue to have doctors without specialist training working in consultant positions, the Mini(...)

A retired senior civil servant who was caught in possession of nearly 60,000 child pornography images and videos, has been given a suspended three yea(...)

It has been just over a year since the first group of Syrian refugees arrived at the Emergency Reception and Orientation Centre (EROC) in Ballaghaderr(...)

GPs have strongly rejected proposals by the Irish Pharmacy Union that pharmacists should be given control of a State-funded, free national contracepti(...)

The Government has approved legislation to provide more than 14,000 carers with free GP care. The Department of Health said the measures would come i(...)

Pharmacists are seeking to deliver a State-funded free contraception service to women, including supplying contraceptive pills without prescription. (...)

Reform in the health service is not optional and additional money is not the sole solution to its difficulties, the Minister for Health Simon Harris h(...)

General practitioners have rejected proposals by the Government that would see the reversal of financial cuts imposed on them following the economic c(...)

General practitioners have rejected proposals by the Government that would see the reversal of financial cuts imposed following the economic crash in (...)