Portlaoise Hospital

A senior Health Service Executive (HSE) doctor has resigned just days after criticising “draconian” anti-Covid-19 restrictions. Dr Martin Feeley’s vi(...)

Staff shortages in a Co Laois nursing home are increasing the “risk of harming our residents”, the general manager of the centre has said. Valerie Mo(...)

Why were we not better prepared? Covid-19 hits older people hardest. From early March, when major outbreaks of the disease occurred in nursing homes (...)

The number of new cases of Covid-19 has plateaued and should start to fall shortly, according to research provided to the National Public Health Emerg(...)

Danny Delaney, Theresa Sherlock and Ger O’Neill. Those are the names of some of the men and women who lost their lives at a hospital in Laois ove(...)

Opposition parties have criticised Government under-funding of the national maternity strategy, in the wake of the resignation of patient advocate Mar(...)

Patients are the reason the health service exists, so the resignation of a patient advocate from the board of the Health Service Executive (HSE) is an(...)

One of two patient advocates on the board of the Health Service Executive (HSE) has resigned after only six months in protest at the “tokenistic” trea(...)

Dr Aoife Mullally, an obstetrician at the Coombe hospital in Dublin, has been appointed HSE clinical lead for abortion, a year after the service was i(...)

The Health Service Executive is seeking to recruit a clinical lead for abortion, nine months after the service was introduced. The person appointed w(...)