Department of Health

When Prof Niall Moyna of Dublin City University began examining the health condition of inactive teenagers in recent years, he got a shock. The cardio(...)

Last October, Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed launched a €3.4 million joint research initiative. Nicknamed “Microbe Mom”, it is a collaboration(...)

A senior civil servant who sits on the board of the national children’s hospital was obliged to pass on concerns about the project to Government Minis(...)

Opposition parties have assailed a “disastrous” Government decision to provide free out-of-cycle screening to women concerned about the CervicalCheck (...)

The State is facing a €10 million-plus bill to provide family accommodation at the national children’s hospital after it declined to give naming right(...)

The Department of Health considered plans to deferring parts of the new national children’s hospital including the helipad, outsourcing the kitchen an(...)

Sinn Féin will table a motion of no confidence in the Minister for Health Simon Harris next week. The party said Mr Harris’s offer to correct the Dái(...)

Former HSE director general Tony O’Brien has accused the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of “corroding public life in Ireland” and chasing “every pass(...)

There are symptoms – and then there is the underlying disease. This week we have seen the nurses extending their strike action, a big protest by famil(...)

The Health Service Executive is expected to formally write to the Department of Health setting out its concerns over the delivery of services for pati(...)