Ireland will experience more frequent extreme heat, impacting over larger areas of the country with temperatures exceeding 30 degrees, climate scientists at Maynooth University (MU) have...
Voluntary hospitals, including some of the largest in the country, are warning they may be forced to “restrict, delay or potentially close services” as a result...
Severely ill patients left to suffer as bed shortage increases pressure on system Cara, her mother Tonya, sister Fiadh and father Colin. Cara suffers from spina...
A third of patients are being identified as malnourished on arrival to hospitals in Ireland according to a new study which cited a 34% increase in...
Experts say avoidable harm from the gas — usually released into balloons from small silver canisters before being inhaled — has been observed worldwide. In a...
No progress on identifying suitable funding mechanism for home support, charity boss says The HSE pays private home care firms to deliver most of the service,...
External reviews are to be conducted into the deaths of two pregnant women at maternity units in Kerry and Cork in recent weeks, while a third...
The HSE internal audit into University Hospital Galway and Merlin Park University Hospital also found hospital consultants had not sent invoices worth up to €12.2m to...
AN URGENT warning has been issued over the new Covid-19 variant now accounting for one-third of the hospital admissions. A virologist urged people that Covid-19 isn’t...
AN urgent warning has been issued to parents over a “very infectious” illness that mostly affects young children. The HSE issued an alert for the highly...
Karley Linnane (25) from Kilrush, Co Clare, was pronounced dead last Friday after taking the tablets. It is understood another death in Clare in recent days...
Department of Health official Fiona Larthwell told the Oireachtas Health Committee a visit by inspectors will not be the norm but the proposed new law will...