The Irish Times view on the end of Children’s Health Ireland: promise unfulfilled
It is hard not to link the decision to the chequered performance of CHI over the last eight years
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Hospital secures orders allowing it administer chemotherapy to woman with advanced cancer
Woman faces fatal outcome unless she gets treatment, High Court told
Cause of fish kill on Blackwater river in Cork ‘has not been identified’ – report
Multiple agencies involved in investigation into incident could not say what caused up to 42,000 fish kill in August
Children need to grow up and have ‘the talk’ with ageing parents
A conversation around cash can actually prove a life saver if an unexpected illness or care requirement demands crucial interventions
Inequities in care ‘shorten the lives’ of people with a lesser-known lung disease
Lung fibrosis affects about 5,000 people in Ireland, but many patients are left in limbo as higher-profile respiratory illnesses are prioritised for treatment
Ireland’s drugs budget rising every year in ‘unsustainable’ trajectory
Two more cases being examined in Portiuncula hospital reveiew, Oireachtas committee hears
Minister urged to intercede over regulator row in psychotherapy sector
Stakeholders raise concerns that new standards will lower the quality of training, creating risks for client safety
Patient’s picture was shared ‘mistakenly’ on WhatsApp, HSE data protection log shows
Health service recorded 624 breaches last year including theft of backpack containing files
Home-birth system is a ‘risk to patient safety’, audit finds
No agreed maximum safe travel time to nearest maternity unit or self-employed community midwife, report shows
Consultant working in a public hospital received €963,000 in a year
New report shows one individual working in a public hospital received €963,000 in payments in the same year
Former Ryanair executive critical of HSE’s adoption of cost cutting recommendations
Board member Michael Cawley told Bernard Gloster there seemed to be ‘no urgency’ in efforts to cut spending
Managing chronic pain no longer a case of endurance
In Dublin’s Mount Carmel HSE surgical hub, ‘it’s so calm and you know you’re actually going to be seen’
We need to have a conversation about babies born alive after abortion
The 2023 three year review on abortion called for guidelines to be developed on comfort care after a live birth after abortion
What the HSE wants from its next chief executive
Plus: Malachy McCourt faces ‘public hanging’ in New York, a leafy problem for Irish Rail, and Barack Obama makes a well-timed visit to Dublin
Minister for Health briefed on Drogheda hospital concern weeks before patients
Patients advised of file reviews 11 weeks after HSE raised it with department, Labour’s Ged Nash says
The urgent need to combat vaccine hesitancy in Ireland and abroad
Concerns about childhood vaccination have returned with a bang – we must allay these fears
Elmpark office investment back for sale with reduced €18.5m price tag
Building last offered for sale in 2020 for €28m is generating €1.32m in annual rental income
Could our society’s prejudice against drug users be costing lives?
Despite the narcotics problem in the Republic, could our society’s prejudice against drug users be costing lives?
Taoiseach’s exchange with exhausted mother a fraught moment but not a gotcha
Frustrated mother of a sick child has passionate but respectful encounter with Taoiseach
HSE to create panel to help cut waiting lists for children’s assessments of need
About 90% of applicants not seen within six months as required by Disability Act
‘This could kill’: Highest dosage MDMA ever seen in Ireland identified at Electric Picnic
MDMA tablet was one of 110 drug samples voluntarily submitted through the HSE programme at festival
Two-thirds of public hospitals have unsafe bed-occupancy levels in first half of 2025
Occupancy at 95.9% nationally in the first six months of the year, where 85% considered the limit, new figures show
National Orthopaedic Hospital staff seek boycott of Israeli company’s medicines
Letter signed by 104 workers asks hospital to discontinue use of Israeli company’s products
Raising Limerick hospital chief’s salary ‘in best interests’ of centre, staff told
St John’s Hospital CEO’s pay was raised to a higher band in 2023, in breach of agreed salary scales
Dublin facing high-quality office space shortage, HWBC says
Property agency warns of ‘growing mismatch’ between market demand and office space delivery
The next generation of healthtech must be built around the patient
New services should enable self-management, reduce clinic dependency and improve outcomes that matter to people’s lives
Consultant at centre of review in Drogheda’s Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital has left country
Just over 1,000 cases being looked at as part of analysis relating to tissue diagnoses slides across various specialities
Three hospitals paid consultants all the NTPF money received for waiting-list schemes
Naas, St Michael’s and Kerry hospitals disclosed they had failed to comply with memorandum of understanding with agency, review reveals
More than 1,000 patient cases examined as part of review at Drogheda hospital
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital is taking a look back at all histopathology slides seen by one consultant
New plan aims to improve diagnosis and care for people with rare diseases
Life-threatening or chronically debilitating diseases affect 300,000 people in Ireland
HSE warns Electric Picnic festivalgoers of new psychoactive drugs, offers substance tests on site
Gardaí say they will work with health service’s harm-reduction initiative, but warn of consequences of drug possession
Dozens of Drogheda hospital patients had pre-cancerous cells miscategorised
Several dozen patients to receive letters from hospital over grading of their pre-cancerous cells on foot of review of work of one consultant
Sparking innovation in healthcare: From virtual reality for pain to digital diagnostic systems
HSE Spark awards celebrate innovative healthcare professionals who improve patient care across the public healthcare system
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