Hospital costs may delay but not cancel other projects, says TaoiseachLeo Varadkar reminds St James’s site will ‘totally transform quality of paediatric care’Tue Jan 15 2019 - 21:05
Nurses strikes: Government says it will not provide pay proposals next weekPsychiatric nurses said new proposals would use savings to fund pay parity with other professional groupsTue Jan 15 2019 - 18:26
Oireachtas to begin hearings into soaring cost of National Children’s HospitalConsultants PwC expected to carry out new Government review of cost increasesMon Jan 14 2019 - 01:57
Harris to put in place new €20m plan to tackle hospital superbugMinister warns CPE bug will have serious impact on health service if not containedMon Jan 14 2019 - 01:00
May to make last-ditch attempt to avert defeat for Brexit dealSenior health service officials concerned about access to some 45 key drugsSun Jan 13 2019 - 22:39
HSE warns Government over drug supply in no-deal Brexit scenarioGovernment told it will need to make plans for foodstuffs for those who have specialised diets and rely on products from the UKSun Jan 13 2019 - 20:32
Nurses say understaffing at root of strikes but pay is the solutionUnion says money is not the cause of unrest but it is the way to increase recruitmentSun Jan 13 2019 - 20:08
Department of Public Expenditure not expected to attend talks on nurses’ strikeMove suggests meeting on Tuesday not likely to involve direct negotiations on pay issuesFri Jan 11 2019 - 20:22
Nurses will lose pay rises and gains for recruits if they strikePsychiatric nurses’ union says it will join wave of strikes by nurses next monthFri Jan 11 2019 - 03:00
Psychiatric nurses’ union announces series of strikesPNA says staff recruitment and retention issues need to be addressed urgentlyThu Jan 10 2019 - 17:00
Varadkar criticises nurses for picking midweek date for strikeTaoiseach says weekend strike would have affected far fewer patientsWed Jan 09 2019 - 18:12
Hospital services to be scaled back as nurses plan strikesINMO announces six days of work stoppages in January and February over pay issuesWed Jan 09 2019 - 01:00
Nurses’ strike will be closely watched by other public sector workersGovernment knows any pay deal would lead to knock-on demands by other staffTue Jan 08 2019 - 19:30
Nurses to stage 24-hour strike at the end of JanuaryFurther five dates for strike action in February planned if dispute over pay not resolvedTue Jan 08 2019 - 16:57
Former nursing body executive takes dismissal caseDeirdre Hogan says she was whistleblower who later had to resign from Nursing and Midwifery BoardTue Jan 08 2019 - 14:16
Number of patients waiting on trolleys rises to 580, INMO saysCork, Letterkenny and Limerick hospitals worst affected as Harris says flu is a factorTue Jan 08 2019 - 11:09
Harris warns nurses cannot ‘pick and choose’ from pay dealNursing union to announce plan for series of 24-hour strikes over payTue Jan 08 2019 - 06:00
Free GP care for under-6s led to rise in emergency department referrals, study findsNumber of patients on trolleys on Monday rises to 541 as swine flu numbers riseMon Jan 07 2019 - 19:07
Publicising abortion cases on social media ‘despicable’, says MinisterHarris says any leak of information regarding a patient’s care would be very seriousMon Jan 07 2019 - 13:57
Campaigners protest at Drogheda hospital over ‘first abortion’‘Democracy is a very useful tool but it cannot dictate right and wrong,’ says activistMon Jan 07 2019 - 13:53
Nurses meet to plan strikes as Government signals no concessionsMinister for Finance says acceding demands would ‘take us back to the bad old days’Mon Jan 07 2019 - 06:00
Primary school teachers to enter talks with Government on payINTO will not yet ballot members on industrial action over pay issuesFri Jan 04 2019 - 19:02
Crumlin hospital site may be sold or refitted for adultsOur Lady’s land bank could have ‘significant residual value’ after St James’s opensFri Jan 04 2019 - 00:47
New master of National Maternity Hospital inauguratedProf Shane Higgins takes over from Dr Rhona Mahony for seven-year termWed Jan 02 2019 - 06:00
Nurses say 2018 worst year ever for overcrowding in public hospitalsOver 108,200 patients in need of a hospital bed were forced to wait on trolleysWed Jan 02 2019 - 00:00
Clerical and support staff in hospital emergency units to get additional leaveMove proposed as settlement to knock-on claim on foot of deal with nurses in 2016Sun Dec 30 2018 - 13:40
Chief executives in top Irish firms received more than €2.3m last year – IctuUnions say average worker would need 230 years to earn total package of CRH boss in 2017Sun Dec 30 2018 - 13:08
Siptu to ballot 7,000 health service staff over strike actionSome support-grade staff underpaid by up to €6,000 a year, union claimsFri Dec 28 2018 - 02:00
Varadkar remarks on health staff leave spark public responseCriticism of festive holiday-taking comments include invitation for Taoiseach to help outThu Dec 27 2018 - 02:00
Rising cost of national children’s hospital a scandal in the makingHigh levels of construction inflation resulting in bigger payments to main contractorsSat Dec 22 2018 - 06:00
Key health projects face five-year delays because of Children's Hospital costsConfidential memo from Simon Harris says final bill for the facility could be €1.73bnSat Dec 22 2018 - 01:00
Record HSE funding will not translate into benefits for patientsPay rises and pension payments will eat up nearly €400 million of extra €848 millionFri Dec 21 2018 - 01:00
Government go-ahead for new National Maternity Hospital ends ethos rowPeter Boylan delighted there will be ‘no possibility of religious ethos influencing clinical care’Thu Dec 20 2018 - 18:06
Unions set to seek rises of 3.4% for private sector workersIctu recommends seeking larger increases in more profitable sectorsThu Dec 20 2018 - 13:44
Ambulance staff to press for pay rises as part of new reviewSiptu says new process agreed with HSE and will get under way in JanuaryWed Dec 19 2018 - 17:42
Public health medicine specialists vote for industrial actionIMO seeking release of long-delayed review of sector, and engagement with its findingsWed Dec 19 2018 - 01:00
Public service groups will watch very carefully how Government deals with nursesDonohoe maintains nursing union pay demands would cost €300mTue Dec 18 2018 - 21:36
Dunnes Stores workers to receive 3% pay increaseMandate trade union says Dunnes staff have secured 18% salary hike in the last six yearsTue Dec 18 2018 - 17:02
Nurses and midwives vote overwhelmingly to strike over payINMO likely to stage number of 24-hour stoppages if no resolution foundTue Dec 18 2018 - 13:22
Ministers won’t delay projects to pay for national children’s hospitalCabinet to review capital budgets in Government departments as hospital costs riseTue Dec 18 2018 - 02:00
Psychiatric nurses vote for strike action over pay complaintsResult of Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation ballot to be known on TuesdayMon Dec 17 2018 - 11:59
Abortions will be free but some patients will have to pay for related drugsDraft plans on terminations also call for conscientious objectors to opt out in 'timely manner'Sat Dec 15 2018 - 01:02
Health services may be cut in some areas under new planHSE proposal would see reduced facilities despite a record €17bn in health fundingSat Dec 15 2018 - 00:38
Harris defends rise to €1.4bn in cost of new children’s hospitalSpending increase necessary to deliver state-of-the-art facility, Minister saysFri Dec 14 2018 - 18:51
Fears grow bill for new children’s hospital may hit €1.4bnCost estimates for facility at St James’s Hospital spiralling from 2012’s €404mFri Dec 14 2018 - 03:00
Small reduction in waiting lists but 515,000 still queuing for out-patient appointmentFigures show 71,000 waiting for in-patient or day case procedure in public hospitalsThu Dec 13 2018 - 17:48
‘Rushed’ introduction of abortion services is unsafe and unacceptable say GPsNational Association of GPs says it will not be threatened or intimidated by MinisterThu Dec 13 2018 - 15:02
Ambulance staff defer strike after HSE threatens to seek injunctionPsychiatric Nurses Association says industrial action will take place in January insteadThu Dec 13 2018 - 11:19
New independent patient safety council to review open disclosures policiesDr Scally found current HSE and State Claims Agency policy was unsatisfactoryTue Dec 11 2018 - 19:20
Maternity hospital governance ‘will be resolved when it’s resolved’ – TaoiseachVaradkar says law enacted by Oireachtas will apply, ‘not Canon or any other law’Tue Dec 11 2018 - 18:19
