Stephen Donnelly

Hospital waiting lists have continued their upward trend, with more than 53,000 additional people waiting for an outpatient appointment since the star(...)

The majority of serious incidents occurring in the health service go unescalated and uninvestigated within the required time-frames, new figures show.(...)

The number of people waiting for a nursing home place under the State’s Fair Deal scheme has jumped by a sixth in just three weeks, according to figur(...)

Hospital waiting lists have reached another record high with the numbers waiting for an outpatient appointment climbing by more than 4,000 in just one(...)

The overtime ban by psychiatric nurses is already having an impact on patients with the curtailment of some community mental health services. Howeve(...)

A new €5 million MRI scanning unit is lying idle in the Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore due to staff shortages, it has emerged, even though the re(...)

Seven of the 16 laboratories involved in the CervicalCheck scandal were not inspected by the team set up to investigate it, and they have now closed d(...)

Overspending in the health services increased by €13 million in April to more than €116 million, the Dáil has heard. Minister for Health Simon Harri(...)

A tribunal to hear cases and determine awards arising from the CervicalCheck screening controversy “will be a step into the unknown”, the Dáil has hea(...)

The story of this year’s local elections was driven by narratives around the biggest winners and losers, and the Civil War politics of Fine Gael and F(...)