Department of Health

Pharmacies are experiencing “significant” shortages of key medicines including anti-depressants, according to a survey carried out by the Irish Pharma(...)

The death of a woman who travelled to England for an abortion was ‘extremely shocking’ and raised issues being dealt with in the abortion Bill, Minist(...)

Being told you have cancer is a significant life-event. Even when the prognosis turns out to be good, people describe a numbed response. Although grea(...)

Health insurers are at odds with the Government over how much planned new charges which Minister for Health James Reilly is seeking to introduce for (...)

The former chief executive of the Health Service Executive, Cathal Magee, asked the organisation’s internal audit unit last year to investigate whethe(...)

About a quarter of all publicly run facilities providing long-stay accommodation for older people are now more than 120 years old. With a potential bi(...)

The difficult but welcome passage by the Dáil of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill is a landmark in the country’s political history, and a (...)

Dr Mary Allen, who has died aged 60, was a lecturer at the UCD school of applied social science and former chair of the Women’s Aid board of directors(...)

Women who underwent symphysiotomies by having their pelvises unnecessarily broken during childbirth should be paid damages of up to €450,000, accordin(...)

The Government cannot publish the names of hospital consultants who are holding up the payment to the HSE on income from health insurers due to fears (...)