Income tax and employers’ PRSI may rise to fund health systemExtra €500 million a year needed to pay for expanding health budget, committee saysThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:41
Decision to provide CF drugs made without funding agreementHSE says cost must come from additional Government fundingThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:41
Laundry stored in ‘pools of water’ in mental health unitMental Health Commission criticises poor site facilities and their use for childrenThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:40
Huge cost of Orkambi deal will be major challenge for HSEDecision by Government will be welcomed by the country’s 600 cystic fibrosis patientsThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:39
Gay rights charity Glen hit by bullying and financial investigationsCharity moves to appoint external investigator to examine allegations of intimidationSun Apr 16 2017 - 18:41
Cystic fibrosis patients hopeful further drugs may be developedDeal to secure life-saving medicine for 600 patients came just in time, say sufferersWed Apr 12 2017 - 20:45
Legalising cannabis could boost Irish tax revenues by millionsUS entrepreneur claims pharmaceutical industry against legalisationThu Apr 06 2017 - 20:10
Taxpayer must pay if health reform roadmap implementedOireachtas committee draft report falls down on ways to save money and recruit staffThu Apr 06 2017 - 18:51
End private care in State-funded hospitals, says committeeFuture of healthcare group proposes fund to replace €621m income hospitals would loseThu Apr 06 2017 - 11:57
Mostly free health system would cost €5.4bn, committee saysDraft report proposes phasing out tax subsidy for private health insuranceThu Apr 06 2017 - 11:56
Plans to legalise medicinal cannabis are ‘madness’, says TDKate O’Connell rejects claim medical marijuana Bill would cut overdoses and save livesWed Apr 05 2017 - 18:12
Medicinal cannabis: the pros and consQ&A: There is evidence cannabis can help to manage chronic pain but there are side-effectsWed Apr 05 2017 - 15:11
Dr Heimlich and how his simple manoeuvre can save your lifeMichael Healy-Rae and Ronald Reagan are among those saved. Learn the technique and you’ll join Clint Eastwood and Olly MursWed Apr 05 2017 - 13:00
Concern over 50% jump in gonorrhoea casesYounger people most affected as number of sexually transmitted infections rises by 10%Wed Apr 05 2017 - 12:41
Up to 27,000 hospital patients to take part in surveyNational Patient Experience Survey aims to identify areas of improvement in healthWed Apr 05 2017 - 10:15
Programme treats 47 health staff for addiction, mental health issuesSubstance abuse, anxiety and depression most common issues faced by doctorsWed Apr 05 2017 - 10:13
Extending maternity leave for mothers of premature babies proposed‘The expectation that you go back to work so soon is cruel and unfair,’ says parent of boy born at 23 weeksTue Apr 04 2017 - 15:49
Eye patients at risk of irreversible sight loss due to delays - charityNational Council for the Blind: waiting lists ‘out of control’ with 13,000 awaiting procedureTue Apr 04 2017 - 01:06
‘I put my hand on my left eye. I couldn’t see out of the other one’Agnes O’Connor (87) describes her struggle to get much-needed eye treatmentTue Apr 04 2017 - 01:00
Irish man shot in Libya criticises Government’s refusal to helpFamily of Abduraheem Duidi had to raise money privately to fund medical evacuation to IrelandTue Apr 04 2017 - 01:00
Investigation into suicide of second patient at Connolly HospitalMale patient took his life having been last seen in emergency department waiting roomMon Apr 03 2017 - 09:19
Family of Irish citizen criticise Government after he was shot in LibyaAbduraheem Duibi’s right foot has been amputated by surgeons in Galway hospitalMon Apr 03 2017 - 01:00
Family blames State for loss of son’s foot after Libya shootingGalway doctor says delay in airlifting Irish man led to amputation due to sepsisMon Apr 03 2017 - 01:00
HSE in last-ditch talks to secure cystic fibrosis drugExecutive to meet Orkambi maker in bid to secure deal estimated to cost over €250mMon Apr 03 2017 - 01:00
New service to allow GPs to treat patients via smartphonesGP Online is being piloted by six surgeries for patients who do not need physical examsFri Mar 31 2017 - 01:00
Rogue crisis pregnancy agencies will ‘get around’ proposed BillDept of Health raises concerns with Labour move to ban misleading of women in crisis pregnanciesThu Mar 30 2017 - 13:30
HSE chief warns of ‘tidal wave of demand’ in health systemTony O’Brien says health service will not survive five years without major reformWed Mar 29 2017 - 17:34
Orkambi drug firm ‘perplexed’ by Government delaysCystic Fibrosis Ireland concerned about lack of contact between HSE and VertexWed Mar 29 2017 - 15:52
Suicide of patient at Blanchardstown hospital investigatedFemale patient found dead on Sunday morning in room near emergency departmentWed Mar 29 2017 - 12:57
Plain packaging for cigarettes to begin in SeptemberIreland to become fourth country in world to remove logos from tobacco packagingWed Mar 29 2017 - 10:24
Organ donation: ‘I wouldn’t be here but for that person’Transplant survivors urge people to consider becoming donors and providing ‘gift of life’Wed Mar 29 2017 - 01:00
Bill requires doctors to declare payments from drug firmsFianna Fáil proposal would allow public to search online register of payments to doctorsTue Mar 28 2017 - 21:20
Plans to establish child heart transplant programmeConcerns over current arrangements requiring children to travel to UK for operationsTue Mar 28 2017 - 19:20
Ireland’s health service is close to ‘total systems failure’‘If you have to wait more than 12 months for an appointment you may as well not have that appointment’ - Dr Tom KeaneTue Mar 28 2017 - 18:19
Motor neurone disease and schizophrenia are linked - studyTCD researchers’ findings cast doubt on divide between psychiatry and neurologyFri Mar 24 2017 - 15:15
Dublin patients ‘at serious risk’ over ambulance delaysCallers were needlessly left waiting up to eight minutes because of ‘convoluted’ processesFri Mar 24 2017 - 12:43
Member of HSE ‘Grace’ panel continues to work for public serviceHSE director general to appear before PAC to correct evidence given on case last yearThu Mar 23 2017 - 05:30
Moderate drinking may cut risk of heart diseaseResearch links light alcohol consumption with less risk of heart and blood vessel illnessThu Mar 23 2017 - 01:00
Hospitals face €700m shortfall if private income removed - HarrisMinister accuses some members of healthcare committee of ‘ideological warfare’Wed Mar 22 2017 - 14:01
Simon Harris seeks to shake up consultants’ private workMinister’s proposal designed to eliminate incentive to handle more private patientsWed Mar 22 2017 - 01:01
Consultants call for second cath lab in WaterfordSimon Harris condoning inequality by supporting relatively restricted services in regionWed Mar 22 2017 - 01:00
Analysis: Greater Catholic sway in private healthcare than public systemThere is still a strong Catholic involvement in our hospitals but some orders are getting outMon Mar 20 2017 - 01:00
Six Catholic hospitals in Dublin together worth over €1bnHospitals owned by two religious orders that have underpaid millions in redress schemeMon Mar 20 2017 - 01:00
Watchdog criticises unacceptable delays for scoliosis surgeryFour-month maximum waiting time complies with best practice, says ombudsmanMon Mar 20 2017 - 01:00
Family hope to save younger son with rare genetic disorderCathal Martin (2) diagnosed with MLD too late to take part in clinical trial in ItalySun Mar 19 2017 - 18:20
St Vincent’s Hospital chief paid €575,000 on leaving jobNicky Jermyn returned to work in a different role at St Vincent’s just months after he leftSat Mar 18 2017 - 17:04
Denture businesses treating patients in garden shedsDental technician body claims unregistered operators treat patients in dirty conditionsSat Mar 18 2017 - 01:00
Loophole allows rogue providers of dentures put patients at riskAuthorities powerless to stop illegal operators who practice in dirty conditionsThu Mar 16 2017 - 01:00
Neurologists to draw up guide for safe use of medicinal cannabisExpert group to ensure treatments are ‘beneficial and safe’ for those with epilepsyWed Mar 15 2017 - 21:04
Majority of hospitals miss ambulance turnaround targetsAmbulances had to wait over an hour to transfer patients on 1,500 occasions in JanuaryWed Mar 15 2017 - 01:00
