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Healthcare

Last year
2025
disabilities
Family still waiting for son's assessment of needs despite legally compelling HSE last year
26 Feb 2025
10.9k
35
lack of treatment
Ireland needs 23 beds for eating disorders - but seven years on, there's still no sign of them
More than 20 new beds were due to be made available since 2018 – but none were.
Paul O'Donoghue
25 Feb 2025
14.6k
42
Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation
Eight in ten nurses say patients being treated in ‘inappropriate settings'
12 Feb 2025
7.5k
26
Universal Healthcare
Doctor: To achieve universal healthcare, political leadership is needed
Domhnall McGlacken-Byrne
3 Feb 2025
8.4k
26
Product Safety
HSE notifies public to stop using four types of vape as EU-wide safety warning issued
30 Jan 2025
20.6k
Dublin
Dept of Health has spent €47 million on consultants on delayed National Maternity Hospital
28 Jan 2025
11.4k
column
Opinion: Let’s change the game for people living with HIV
Enda McGrattan (Veda Lady)
14 Jan 2025
7.1k
Women's Health
Your Stories: Have you had to travel abroad to access abortion services?
12 Jan 2025
17.9k
Women's Health
Delay in rollout of free HRT scheme criticised as 'slap in the face for thousands of women'
3 Jan 2025
23.3k
48
All time
psycare
Opinion: We should try to reduce the harm caused by Christmas excess as much as possible
Michael Ledden & Kathryn Ledden
22 Dec 2024
8.0k
war in sudan
Sudan's doctors bear brunt of war as healthcare falls apart
18 Dec 2024
4.3k
rsv
RSV cases in infants have dropped massively since vaccine programme started in September
16 Dec 2024
11.9k
48
world aids day
Opinion: How the new Irish Government can end HIV transmission by 2030
Stephen O'Hare
1 Dec 2024
4.1k
rehab in ireland
Brain injury: Rehab is crucial, but survivors are often forgotten and just left to exist
Dr Karen Foley
Updated 28 Nov 2024
7.9k
5
Hospitals
Healthcare workers vote overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action amid 'staffing crisis'
Updated 27 Nov 2024
12.0k
59
ge2024
Health and the election: 'Our hospital system is faltering and we can't ignore it any longer'
Professor Rónán Collins
Updated 26 Nov 2024
11.3k
51
Recovery
COPD: 'I didn't understand why this was happening - I was active, healthy and never smoked'
Denise Croke
19 Nov 2024
17.9k
warning
If RFK Jr leads Trump's health team, trust in vaccines could be 'undermined' globally
9 Nov 2024
22.2k
Report
80,000 workers needed to address 'significant' shortfalls in four key areas of infrastructure
30 Oct 2024
14.5k
44
Sinn Féin
Free prescription medicines and 40,000 extra healthcare staff included in Sinn Féin’s healthcare plan
Updated 29 Oct 2024
19.6k
159
Addiction
Lynn Ruane: It's time to change our approach to drug use and addiction
Lynn Ruane
27 Oct 2024
14.0k
50
Healthcare
Opinion: 'Neuroimaging has shown that psychedelics can increase connectivity in the brain'
Dr Colm Harrington
Updated 25 Oct 2024
11.8k
safe access zones
Safe access zones around abortion providers come into effect from today
17 Oct 2024
5.6k
Give Blood
Urgent appeal for extra 2,000 blood donations over next four weeks as supply drops
8 Oct 2024
12.6k
43
Diagnosis
My health story: 'They told me I had a brain tumour – I was absolutely terrified'
Pamela Tully
7 Oct 2024
11.7k
Healthcare
Four in five pregnant women in Ireland are iron deficient by third trimester, new study finds
26 Sep 2024
7.8k
13
drug rehabilitation
Lessons from Ireland: How Colombia can rethink its response to drug use
Tony Duffin & Ana María Restrepo
25 Sep 2024
7.6k
25
HSE
Free RSV immunisation for newborns to be rolled out next week
27 Aug 2024
9.0k
17
Emergency Departments
Over 5,000 people died or were pronounced dead on arrival in EDs over the last five years
7 Aug 2024
11.2k
28
National Screening Programme
Health watchdog to examine lowering age threshold for BreastCheck screening to women in their 40s
5 Aug 2024
11.9k
IT Bother
Mater hospital defers 'small number' of surgeries due to IT issues
31 Jul 2024
5.7k
2
Olympics
Miriam Donohoe: The Irish have very strong ties with Uganda - even hurling is big here
Miriam Donohoe
27 Jul 2024
10.9k
17
Our Lady of Lourdes
Patient care: Hospital staff did their best for my father but the resources aren't there
Nick McGinley
22 Jul 2024
12.7k
10
Maternity Care
Bereaved families 'extremely concerned' about scope of HSE probe into baby and mother deaths
18 Jul 2024
8.3k
Health Service
HSE chief says recruitment freeze to end tomorrow
14 Jul 2024
29.2k
36
Anniversary
Miriam Donohoe: How Ireland has helped transform lives in Karamoja, Uganda’s poorest region
Miriam Donohoe
14 Jul 2024
7.9k
Healthcare
Conversion therapy in Ireland renounced by healthcare bodies with signing of memorandum today
12 Jul 2024
12.3k
1
Public Health
Hospitalisations and deaths linked to hot weather are set to increase due to climate change
10 Jul 2024
12.1k
96
Long Lists
Nearly half a million people waiting longer for medical appointments than Sláintecare targets
14 Jun 2024
8.5k
45
Department of Health
UCD professor Mary Horgan named interim Chief Medical Officer following departure of Breda Smyth
11 Jun 2024
11.1k
4
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