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HSE

Last year
2025
Healthy Ireland Survey
Irish people get 6.9 hours of sleep on average, but women and carers' sleep quality is poorer
7 Nov 2025
9.7k
29
BowelScreen
Screening for bowel cancer is now available to people aged 58
3 Nov 2025
9.1k
11
HIV PrEP
'Deeply distressing for LGBTQI+ community': Labour TD calls for better access to HIV PrEP
3 Nov 2025
9.2k
27
Gaza Medevac
Ireland completes complex medical evacuation of sick children from Gaza to Ireland
28 Oct 2025
7.9k
land development agency
HSE boss says he'll take Baggot Street Hospital off the market if a state body wants it for housing
The HSE only formally notified the LDA of the disposal of the property this week.
Christina Finn
17 Oct 2025
40.1k
66
land development agency
HSE urged to clarify if it offered Baggot St Hospital for housing as LDA says no notice issued
A public body like the HSE is not to dispose of public land unless it has given notice and offered it for sale to the LDA first.
15 Oct 2025
10.1k
19
Housing Crisis
'It is a prime location': Baggot St Hospital snubbed for housing use raised with Taoiseach
14 Oct 2025
12.9k
31
Hospital overcrowding
Health Minister isn't ruling out new hospital for the Mid-West as 96 bed unit opens at UHL
13 Oct 2025
8.6k
42
HSE SELLING UP
State bodies at odds as Housing Department says it was never offered the Baggot Street Hospital
12 Oct 2025
16.6k
18
INMO
Nurses in Mayo University Hospital’s ED serve notice of industrial action due to staffing concerns
10 Oct 2025
7.7k
30
No tender process
'Outrageous' that Beaumont Hospital overspent €3m of public money on IT system, PAC chair says
9 Oct 2025
13.1k
For Sale
HSE puts landmark former Baggot Street hospital up for sale
9 Oct 2025
19.1k
49
Trauma patients
Ambulance service 'looking at' sending doctors to the scene of accidents
Updated 8 Oct 2025
11.2k
22
Health Committee
Health minister 'not happy' with spinal surgery waiting lists but won't call it 'an emergency'
1 Oct 2025
10.5k
55
children's health ireland
Taoiseach says inquiry into scoliosis and spina bifida care must be 'transparent and public'
30 Sep 2025
4.1k
25
free shots
Chickenpox vaccine to be made available for one-year-olds for free
25 Sep 2025
5.0k
Health
HSE to take over scandal-hit Children's Health Ireland and new National Children's Hospital
24 Sep 2025
20.7k
40
The Morning Lead
HSE has 'no capacity or funding' to help people quit vaping
Labour TD Marie Sherlock called on the Minister for Health to ‘step up’ in advance of a Dáil debate today on young people vaping.
Conor O'Carroll
24 Sep 2025
7.3k
32
assessment of need
HSE seeks private providers to reduce backlog in autism assessments for children and teens
15 Sep 2025
6.3k
National Ambulance Service
Unite union ambulance workers to ballot for industrial action over outsourcing row
14 Sep 2025
5.5k
13
The Morning Lead
Vaping is hooking a new generation of Irish people on nicotine, Lancet study suggests
The researchers said an Australian law restricting vape sales to pharmacies should be looked at here too.
8 Sep 2025
7.1k
34
screenings
Health officials want to know what screening services the public want to access
1 Sep 2025
12.3k
44
Inspection Reports
Ten nursing homes found to be in breach of four or more care standards
28 Aug 2025
17.6k
Children's brain injuries
Doctor warns e-scooter incidents have seen brain injuries in children spike dramatically
27 Aug 2025
9.6k
83
Electric Picnic
Drug screening back at Electric Picnic after high-strength MDMA caused convulsions last year
27 Aug 2025
7.6k
InvestigatesChemo Delays
Chemo after breast cancer surgery often delayed to point it is less effective
This therapy can reduce the risk of cancer coming back. But potential benefits decrease the longer people have to wait for treatment after surgery.
Maria Delaney
27 Aug 2025
17.7k
34
RELATED
Health minister: 'No point' in promising extra hospital staff to tackle chemo treatment delays
27 Aug 2025
Almost 25% of 'urgent' patients waiting too long for breast clinic appointments
9 Jul 2025
'It's getting tougher': Hospitals failing to consistently start chemo on time
7 Jul 2025
Investigatescancer treatment
No treatment, no dignity: 'If she knew she was going to die, she would have had a party'
Marian Quinlan was diagnosed with cancer and died less than three months later with no curative or palliative treatment. Her family want answers.
'The HSE needs to act now'
Family blames absence of treatment on a breakdown of communications
Calling for urgent implementation of electronic records
Maria Delaney
24 Aug 2025
37.8k
harvey morrison sherratt
Parents of Harvey say Simon Harris is responsible for failed promises, but not their son's death
20 Aug 2025
17.0k
Disability Matters
HSE has helped just 104 younger people move out of nursing homes for the elderly
19 Aug 2025
8.6k
home births
Closure of private midwifery firm is a 'return to the Dark Ages' for birth options, says NGO
14 Aug 2025
8.9k
7
Racist attacks
HSE condemns 'racist abuse and assaults' targeting Indian community in Ireland
13 Aug 2025
7.6k
Healthcare
Sharp increase in prescription painkiller use in Ireland
7 Aug 2025
12.4k
High Court
High Court steps in as farmer gives €350k to charity to get into heaven
1 Aug 2025
112k
52
Waiting Lists
Outpatients in Ireland face the longest waits for care of patients in similar countries
26 Jul 2025
6.6k
12
Children in Care
Nineteen children known to Tusla died last year, including four by suicide
25 Jul 2025
10.0k
Courts
HSE apologises over delay to act on x-ray that showed man (91) had swallowed dentures
23 Jul 2025
15.6k
The blame game
Stephen Donnelly claims Irish negativity is holding back health service from taking risks
The former Health Minister told the MacGill Summer School that ‘the level of negativity we see is not normal’.
Maria Delaney
reports from Glenties
18 Jul 2025
11.1k
33
InvestigatesChemo Delays
'It's getting tougher': Hospitals failing to consistently start chemo on time
This is just one of the many delays faced by people with cancer in the public healthcare system.
A shocking 10 hospitals missed the target more than half of the time since 2023
People can be left waiting many weeks more than recommended for treatment
'This is not just a delay, it can be life altering' – Averil Power, Irish Cancer Society
Maria Delaney
7 Jul 2025
22.8k
43
assessment of needs
HSE chief admits waiting lists for assessments for children with disabilities will get worse
1 Jul 2025
9.0k
reimbursement
Will Ireland follow the UK with free Mounjaro jabs? Minister says assessment to be ready by next year
25 Jun 2025
19.1k
26
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