Department of Health
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GP care retreat
- Health
- May 9, 2013, 02:00
The revelation in this newspaper that the Government is set to abandon a key election commitment to extend free GP care to almost 60,000 people(...)

Dr Reilly indicates potential for two-centre Dublin-Belfast children’s heart services
- Politics
- May 8, 2013, 22:32
Minister for Health Dr James Reilly has opened up the possibility of having some form of childr(...)

Taoiseach insists free GP care pledge will be honoured
- Oireachtas
- May 8, 2013, 17:58
MICHAEL O’REGAN and MARIE O’HALLORAN Taoiseach Enda Kenny has inisted that the Government’s election commitment to extend free GP care to(...)

GP card plan for long-term illness to be dropped
- Health
- May 8, 2013, 06:00
The Government is set to abandon a key election commitment to extend free GP care to almost 60,000 people with long-term illnesses. The p(...)
HSE staff offered paid three-year career break
- Health
- May 8, 2013, 06:00
HSE staff are being offered up to €36,000 in “incentivised payments” to take a three-year career break as part of a dramatic effort to c(...)

Medical card holders keen on Viagra
- Health
- May 7, 2013, 07:00
More than 115,000 prescriptions for Viagra were filled in 2011, according to new figures from the Department of Health. The cost of pres(...)

Statutory code planned for drink sales
- News
- May 7, 2013, 06:00
The Government is to introduce a statutory code requiring shopowners to separate the sale of alcohol from other goods i(...)

Private hospitals lobby over legislation
- Health & Pharma
- May 4, 2013, 06:00
Private hospitals are to ask the European Commission to review planned Irish legislation which will allow public hospitals greater scope to cha(...)

Kenny stresses law on abortion not being altered
- Health
- May 2, 2013, 06:00
Taoiseach Enda Kenny stressed the law on abortion was not being altered when the Governme(...)

Wide welcome for draft legislation within Labour Party
- News
- May 2, 2013, 06:00
The heads of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill have been widely welcomed within the Labour Party. At the week(...)