Report says demographic change will put increasing pressure on family carers and formal care services

Enterprise Minister Peter Burke will tell Cabinet colleagues change will last until more Irish staff are trained

On any given day, there remain hundreds of patents waiting for admission to a hospital bed, placed on a trolley, chair, or other area of a hospital, writes Health Correspondent Fergal Bowers.

Over two thirds of 18- to 24-year-olds say they are considering a move abroad, and 71% believe life would be better elsewhere

Scrapping private practice in public hospitals to cost HSE €140m

In a brief note to the Oireachtas Public Accounts committee, The HSE warned that annual overruns are likely to continue. For the details, Public Policy Correspondent of The Irish Times, Martin Wall.

Nursing Homes Ireland has said Ireland is running out of time to prepare for an ageing population, calling on the Government to convene a national dialogue on ageing "without delay".

The first of six citizenship ceremonies began in Dublin on Thursday

We have twice as many new citizens coming through the channel that demands no actual connection to Ireland

Phenomenon of setting out to financially help people only to leave them worse off is so commonplace in Irish economic policy that I have given it a name: the failure premium

‘Growing and ageing population requires realistic budget ... to deliver timely and appropriate care,’ says Irish Medical Organisation

Same political parties who once let wealthy buy Irish residency now want tighter rules for others who live here

We don’t want the isolating, automated outputs tech lords are selling us. We’re yearning for a shared frame of reference

More than 284,000 people are waiting for initial appointments across primary and community care services, new figures reveal.

Politicians seem caring in person, but the process continues to be dragged out, adding to the pain of people who have already endured so much

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Private health insurance firms are entrenched behind slick advertising, reminding people they will be safeguarded as long as they can pay

Dubliner Derek Toomey (62) could not walk for more than a few minutes before having procedure at Dublin’s Mater hospital

Despite working on it, I learned that the pilot scheme was being shelved in The Irish Times

Restructuring Ireland’s health service was meant to integrate services locally, but concerns have been highlighted by regional managers and the HSE board

It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.

Living on ‘wrong’ side of HSE area boundary means Tipperary man cannot access nearest specialist neurorehabilitation team

Almost 1,000 people attended the Limerick hospital over a three-day period last week, an ‘exceptionally high level of activity for any time of the year’

The representative body for Irish GPs warns of three ‘emerging pressure points’

The Minister’s dilemma is that winding down the practice could add to waiting lists

Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

‘I don’t think anyone would say paracetamol is sufficient when it comes to real, genuine labour pain’

Seventeen consultants on public-only contracts received written permission by Dublin hospital’s master to carry out private care

As an obstetrician, I know the harmful concept of a ‘latent phase’ of labour puts women and their babies at risk

Hiqa commenced targeted inspections of all centres in the Emeis Ireland group after broadcast of RTÉ programme last year

New Department of Health data shows 69% of all hospital consultants are now working the 2023 Public-Only Consultant Contract, which requires them to exclusively treat public patients in public hospita...

Facebook's silencing of a whistleblower shines a light on a private justice system and a "post-state" future where tech bros write the rules. Or as we call them, "laws"

Private work is being "flushed through" the public system at University Hospital Galway with the taxpayer left to pick up the bill, the Dáil has heard.

Public Accounts Committee hears payroll system, over budget by €2m, also outside procurement regulations

Beaumont apologises for ‘historic control issues’ in its 2024 financial accounts after it was revealed that company receiving hospital funds has 20 staff among its directors, with just for declaring a...

Dr Maya Sharma, who lost her job and home, plans to set up a private practice in Kerry

Pay costs from over-recruitment contributing to hospitals’ financial pressures, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill tells PAC

Health service’s expenditure on agency workers reached €903.4 million last year

In a southern city battered by Israeli strikes, returning residents confront a devastated region while grieving medical workers refuse to leave

Majority of voluntary hospitals still restricting state access to their financial information

In order to maintain the fear factor that drives women towards private care, the hospital’s board implicitly insulted its own staff

Maternity hospital’s board to bring its arrangements into line with Government policy

Minister of State Robert Troy says there must be ‘consequences’ if public contracts not implemented

Hospital refuses to back down on decision allowing public-only consultants to offer private care on-site