Hospitals
Irish hospitals appointing non-EU doctors without police clearance
HSE internal audit warns of potential patient safety and reputational risks
HSE issues Ireland’s first-ever guidance on birthing pools
Guidance aims to develop consistent approach to use of birthing pools in maternity settings
Is it possible to meet the increasing need for GP services?
Locum GP cover must be robustly addressed
Overreliance on AI risks ‘deskilling’ health sector staff, report warns
Hiqa publishes Ireland’s first national guidance on safe use of AI in health and social care services
Meet Tori the hospital dog: ‘One of the best things we have done’
At St Luke’s Hospital in Rathgar, the community dog provides comfort to cancer patient and helps them open up
Hospitals say insufficient funding is affecting patient services
Irish Voluntary Healthcare Association says its members are worried about financial sustainability
About 150 women turned away for private care by National Maternity Hospital consultants
End of private maternity care in publicly funded hospitals ‘will be a real problem’, says former NMH master
Number of stabbing victims treated in Irish hospitals rises to 15-year high
Trends revealed by Irish Times followed recent high-profile killings renewing concerns about knife crime
‘I was begging for pain relief but they said I wasn’t dilated enough’: Women query HSE maternity service guidelines
‘I don’t think anyone would say paracetamol is sufficient when it comes to real, genuine labour pain’
Clamping at hospitals is at the expense of vulnerable people
The pursuit of profit by outside contractors on a HSE site is private enterprise, which should be disavowed
Emergency department chronic shortcomings contrast sharply with vision of State’s founders
Descendant of long-serving ceann comhairle confronted by trolley crisis when his wife needed urgent care
Dublin hospital car parks are full every morning
Those who arrive after 9am must sit in their cars in a queue waiting on a space
Private patient income loss among Slaintecare’s unintended consequences
Loss of voluntary hospitals’ independence by cutting funding will ultimately result in poorer quality of care for all
Wide of the target regarding voluntary hospitals
Many of these institutions have been responsible for some of the most important advances in Irish medicine
Like smoking, private maternity care is a choice comparable in cost to a family holiday
Assertion that Ireland’s two-tiered model of healthcare casts us as an outlier requires some evidence
‘Free births’ in Ireland: Within three hours Naomi (38) died, leaving behind four kids
Doctors and midwives are concerned about a ‘notable rise’ in medically unassisted home births in the State. Do expectant mothers know the risks?
Doctors obliged to train in Irish hospitals in need of support
I can identify with reference to ‘unsafe staffing levels’ for junior doctors
Annual hospital car parking fee revenue almost doubles to top €15m in five years
Capped charges for patients undergoing treatment should be introduced, says Social Democrats TD
Waiting lists: Patients waiting 18 months or more increased in the majority of Irish hospitals in 2025
Across the three waiting list types – inpatient, outpatient, and GI endoscopy – 894,369 people were waiting for treatment last year
Initial breathlessness turned out to be incurable cancer: ‘My initial reaction was shock’
When Ilana Hastings first noticed symptoms in July 2024, she thought her breathlessness might be a sign of Long Covid
Health service failed to meet goal of cutting hospital waiting lists in 2025
NTPF figures show 64 per cent of the 750,000 patients on hospital waiting lists were waiting longer than target times
How virtual replicas of hospitals and patients can transform Irish healthcare
Digital twins in healthcare: Ireland’s path to predictive medicine
The rise of virtual wards providing care at home: ‘It’s been absolutely fantastic’
Patients are remotely monitored by St Vincent’s Hospital medical teams
Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital transferring women as far as Drogheda due to bed shortage
Babies younger than 25 weeks were once not considered viable but ‘now we’re looking at 22-weekers’, says Rotunda master
Equivalent of two large hospitals needed to deal with expected Irish flu surge, doctors warn
Irish Medical Organisation says flu cases will require equivalent of two large hospitals
Second hospital chief executive salary breaches public pay scale
The Department of Public Expenditure asked the HSE to examine salaries of voluntary hospitals after issue emerged in Limerick
Hospitals’ wait-time performance ‘a concern’ says Minister as flu pressure mounts
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill urges public to get vaccinated amid rise in influenza cases
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has taken on the hospital boards. There can only be one winner
Attempts of Minister for Health to impose some sort of discipline on State’s voluntary hospitals is a battle about who should be in control
‘Significant’ staffing shortages in stroke units, report finds
National Office of Clinical Audit reports 13 per cent increase in hospital stroke admissions
An 18-year-old girl was the first in Ireland to benefit from pain-free surgery
The celebration is both a tribute to the pioneers who revolutionised surgery and an opportunity to appreciate the silent guardians of the operating room
Blood transfusion service appeals for donors as supplies run critically low
‘High hospital demand and increasing illness mean we need help’ – IBTS
HSE spends tens of thousands each year to bury those without family, figures show
Services deal with cases of homeless individuals who die in acute hospitals
Lack of nursing home beds ‘means older people staying longer in acute hospitals’
Significant increase in nursing home beds needed to meet growing demand, says representative body
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