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HSE

Last year
2025
Health
Brendan Gleeson does not regret calling Micheál Martin a 'moron' over the health service
25 Jun 2025
13.7k
41
HSE
Seven-day rosters in hospitals is 'robbing Peter to pay Paul', say consultants
24 Jun 2025
12.4k
14
Courts
HSE apologises after child given wrong Covid vaccine with a used needle
23 Jun 2025
22.5k
Ombudsman Report
Lack of progress moving younger people from nursing homes slammed as 'completely unacceptable'
18 Jun 2025
4.5k
An Coimisiún Pleanála
Former HSE chief Paul Reid to be appointed head of new planning authority
16 Jun 2025
20.0k
72
secondary fertility
State-funded IVF to be expanded 'imminently' to couples facing difficulty conceiving second child
Currently only couples with no children are eligible for free fertility treatments.
Christina Finn
13 Jun 2025
10.0k
41
children's health ireland
HSE to refer unpublished Children's Health Ireland report to gardaí and Medical Council
Updated 5 Jun 2025
16.3k
children's health ireland
Health Minister calls for CHI report on consultant misuse of waiting list system to be published
4 Jun 2025
9.6k
Donegal doctors seek ‘urgent meeting’ after Letterkenny overlooked as location of new surgical hub
3 Jun 2025
8.3k
27
HSE
Free hormone replacement therapy available to women of Ireland from today
1 Jun 2025
17.6k
39
PAC
Children's Health Ireland to be called back before Public Accounts Committee
29 May 2025
5.1k
Chi
Norma Foley won't 'pre-empt' Health Minister on whether CHI should be fully subsumed into HSE
28 May 2025
6.4k
16
CHI AUDIT
HSE staff found to be 'ingratiating themselves financially' will be referred to gardaí, CEO says
The Sunday Times reported that an internal investigation at CHI found that a consultant abused the waiting list system while also delaying operations for sick children up to three years.
Updated 25 May 2025
24.7k
46
Galway
New review launched into Portiuncula Hospital maternity care following death of baby
16 May 2025
7.3k
Government Questions
Minister for Health says transgender healthcare is 'not meeting people’s needs'
14 May 2025
8.7k
Frontline perspectives
'He was honest, but honesty isn't enough': HSE workers react to Bernard Gloster's resignation
14 May 2025
15.6k
32
Breaking
HSE CEO Bernard Gloster to resign next year
Gloster, who was previously the CEO of Tusla, said stepping down has been a “significant personal decision”.
13 May 2025
12.6k
76
e-cigarettes
HSE issues warning over three types of vape wrongly labelled as having no nicotine
12 May 2025
8.7k
migrant healthcare
Notion that refugees get 'special treatment' in healthcare is wrong, specialist says
Mairead Maguire
11 May 2025
14.9k
Nursing
Nurses call on HSE to hire more security to prevent assaults, as minister says it's up to hospitals
Mairead Maguire
8 May 2025
9.5k
37
Children's Hospital
There won't be enough nurses to staff the National Children's Hospital - INMO
Mairead Maguire
7 May 2025
10.9k
44
HSE
Hospital consultants using waiting lists to funnel business to their private companies, Dáil told
7 May 2025
40.7k
INMO
Half of nurses say they've experienced aggressive or threatening behaviour at work
7 May 2025
3.3k
cancer screening
Blood test that can screen for common cancers not being used in Ireland despite UK trials
29 Apr 2025
13.0k
30
Housing Crisis
The HSE has more than 230 vacant properties, with 93 'surplus to requirement'
23 Apr 2025
20.8k
22
Disability care
'I don't want to be here forever': The hidden struggle of middle-aged adults living in nursing homes
20 Apr 2025
29.4k
delays in treatment
Staff shortages: Mental health patients forced to compete for attention in emergency departments
Updated 17 Apr 2025
6.9k
What you need to know about the 'Grace' case scandal
16 Apr 2025
12.5k
Grace case
Irish social workers say commissions of inquiries 'not suitable' for safeguarding reviews
Updated 16 Apr 2025
11.5k
Grace case
Whistleblower told Simon Harris to ‘shut down’ Farrelly Commission in 2019
16 Apr 2025
42.7k
foster home sexual abuse
The 'Grace' case inquiry's final report will be published today after a six-year delay
'Grace', a woman with profound intellectual disabilities was left in a foster home in the Waterford area for almost 20 years despite a succession of sexual and physical abuse allegations.
In 2017, the former HSE boss apologised to the 47 families – including Grace’s – who were left in care.
Christina Finn
15 Apr 2025
10.5k
Mental Health
Brother of man who died by suicide after seeking hospital help describes mental health plan as a ‘failure’
11 Apr 2025
18.4k
Mental Health
Autism protocol promising early intervention to be rolled out as part of new mental health plan
9 Apr 2025
6.7k
20
InvestigatesExporting Abortion
'The most vulnerable are still being exported': Why and how women have to travel for abortions
Hundreds of women travel from Ireland to the UK every year for terminations.
8 Apr 2025
6.4k
Sexual Abuse
Doubt cast over when 'Grace' case report will be made public but minister commits to publication
5 Apr 2025
8.5k
PNA
Psychiatric nurses suspend industrial action after HSE agrees to review staffing numbers
3 Apr 2025
4.2k
9
InvestigatesBirth Choice
Labour room built for less medicalised births cost €100,000 but rarely used
The suite in Sligo University Hospital is often called ‘the good sitting room’ by frustrated mothers and birth workers.
The Suaimhneas Room is the only delivery suite in the hospital that complies with modern infrastructure guidelines
Almost 40 women told The Journal Investigates about how this impacted them
Midwife: 'They’re not facilitating what the women need'
Adriana Casserly
3 Apr 2025
21.6k
18
vaping
Letter sent to retailers about new €800 licence fee to sell vaping products
28 Mar 2025
21.5k
43
Mental Health Services
Thousands of psychiatric nurses to begin 'work to rule' industrial action nationally today
26 Mar 2025
8.1k
26
INTERNAL AUDIT
HSE made salary overpayments of €14.7m at the end of 2023
25 Mar 2025
11.2k
13
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