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The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has announced the death of its chairman Prof Pat O’Mahony. Prof O’Mahony served in that role for t...

Three hospitals used funds provided for insourcing solely to pay consultants, despite the money being provided to cover all costs associated with the...

Almost nine-in-ten guidance counsellors have seen a significant increase in anxiety among secondary school students, a new survey has found. Of 55 gui...

The Minister for Health has launched a five‑year National Rare Disease Strategy 2025–2030, a system‑wide plan published this week to improve the lives...

Dear Editor: Drinkaware has just completed its first-ever ethnographic research project with young adults in Ireland, giving us an unprecedented oppor...

Just 15 per cent of rooms in the National Children’s Hospital have been satisfactorily completed, with ‘open snags’ found in many rooms that have been...

“I’m fine.” It sounds harmless, polite even. In my generation though, it has become more than just a phrase. It’s a mask – a default response. A defle...

Visibly unclean kitchen equipment and large pieces of dirt under residents’ beds were among the findings uncovered in an inspection of a nursing home...