Ageing population takes its toll on Ireland’s health system
With the proportion of elderly people increasing as the population rises, how will the country cope with the health implications of these changing demographics?
With the proportion of elderly people increasing as the population rises, how will the country cope with the health implications of these changing demographics?
Outsourcing initiatives in Ireland and abroad are being used to tackle list with 138 children still waiting
Minister says total allocation to the State Claims Agency for clinical negligence will be €485m
Department of Health says that target is reset to €368m
Minister for Health ‘concerned’ that Beaumont Hospital has still not handed back support unit borrowed from Irish Kidney Association in 2020
Increase in mental health-related issues within medical profession, annual conference of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association told
Colette Cowan appointed among integrated healthcare area managers in midwest while facing disciplinary proceedings following Aoife Johnston’s death at University Hospital Limerick
National Paediatric Hospital Development Board says it could not express confidence in most recent revised substantial completion date
Stephen Donnelly says commissioning of facility accelerated and staff could move in ‘maybe before final completion date’
Budget 2025: Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald challenges Taoiseach to ‘bring it on’ and name general election date
Minister for Health says in letter to board of Children’s Health Ireland it is ‘unacceptable that greater progress was not made before now’
Sugar Sweetened Drinks Tax sees 25 per cent drop in consumption of sugary drinks
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Failure to set substantial completion date for new national children’s hospital a significant risk to commissioning programme for the project, CHI chairman says
Measure is part of strategy aimed at eliminating the use of tobacco products and protecting children
Aontú is concerned the proposed extension of the free contraception scheme to 16-year-olds amounts to a State-sponsored behavioural nudge: where their parents got SSIAs or Eircom shares, today’s young women would get Mirena coils
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Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien is understood to be targeting expanded funding for the Land Development Agency to build 20,000 homes by 2030
New report from Stephen Donnelly and Dr Rhona Murphy examines rising costs to taxpayer of medical negligence cases
Stronger laws may be needed to safeguard young people, according to Stephen Donnelly
Stephen Donnelly is seeking an expansion to the scheme providing free contraception to women – including possibly to 16-year-olds
Consultancy firm Ernst and Young was paid a total of €33.5m by health service in 2023 for orders over €100,000
Plans to restrict the sale and advertising of vaping products and ban single-use vapes are in train but challenges lie ahead
Protests within 100m of hospitals and other facilities offering pregnancy terminations will be prohibited from mid-October
Sale of disposable vapes in State would be banned under proposals brought before Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting
St James’s Hospital advised Paige Behan to go instead to Holles Street
HSE publishes first report of Opportunistic Case Finding Programme at its national conference on integrated care
More than 40,800 Palestinians have been killed and almost 94,400 wounded in Israel’s military offensive, says Gaza health ministry
Online platforms are harming children in ‘really sinister, dark ways’, says Stephen Donnelly as online health taskforce is announced
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly seeks to improve productivity in the service
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High-quality information ‘more important than ever’, says Stephen Donnelly
As key services in education, health, housing and transport struggle with increasing demand, plans are being devised to deal with pressures from rising immigration and people living longer
There have been a number of cases in which people in high-profile positions at a healthcare facility that experienced controversy stepped down without any findings of wrongdoing being made against them
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