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People ‘frightened’ by long wait times are avoiding Irish emergency departments

Many patients expect significant delays at their local hospital

University Hospital Limerick seeks to build 96-bed block

Hospital is also recruiting emergency department staff and patient flow coordinators to ease overcrowding

Is there any cure for Ireland’s most overcrowded hospital?

University Hospital Limerick management has defended the hospital’s performance by citing a lack of beds, but a Hiqa inspection also found that a shortage of nurses, slow patient throughput and delayed discharges at weekends were adding to its problems

Donnelly admits ‘tensions’ over Navan intervention after Reid cited ‘frustrations’ in resignation letter

Minister for Health’s comments come after the outgoing HSE chief executive said he felt constrained in seeking to improve patient quality and outcomes

Taoiseach: ‘I’m not prepared to prevaricate. I’m determined that we move on and provide facilities for women in the 21st century’

Micheál Martin says he’s clear in his conscience that the new National Maternity Hospital must go ahead, despite opposition

Design For Life

Why do I seek the attention of men other than my boyfriend?

This week, psychologist Louize Carroll explains the reasons why a reader behaves in an overtly flirtatious way when her boyfriend is absent

National Maternity Hospital

The maternity hospital land war: a battle between principles and pragmatism

First mooted in 2013, the relocation of the National Maternity Hospital from Holles Street in Dublin city centre to the St Vincent’s campus at Elm Park looks set to get the go-ahead from government, even as objectors continue to raise concerns over the move

National Maternity Hospital

SVHG medical board urges government to approve new maternity hospital this week

The move comes ahead of the cabinet’s meeting on Tuesday where ministers are expected to give the go-ahead to the €800 million-plus project, despite calls from the opposition for further debate

Elaine Byrne: Don’t read too much into Ronan Glynn’s move to EY – talk of a public service ‘brain drain’ doesn’t hold up

In a highly competitive jobs market, it is not unusual that people transfer in and out of the public and private sectors, and nor is it necessarily a bad thing

Holohan rebuked by Donnelly over Nphet replacement group

The chief medical officer raised concerns over membership of the new advisory team, correspondence seen by the Business Post shows

Aspiration for single-tier health system not under threat from National Maternity Hospital leasing terms, Taoiseach says

Opposition calls for government to drop its leasing plans and ensure site is owned by the state

Dr Ronan Glynn resigns as deputy chief medical officer

Departure the latest in a series of high profile step downs

New Regional Health Authorities will manage HSE’s budget at local level

Authorities will not have their own boards

In search of HRT: How talking about menopause has led to an overnight shortage of the life-changing treatment

HRT allows many women to have better sleep, an improved mood and to function better, so its abrupt loss is causing distress

Tony O’Brien: Time is running out for Stephen Donnelly to leave a positive legacy in the Department of Health

The Minister for Health doesn’t get the credit he deserves for the things he has achieved and now he has just six months left to prove himself, but if Sinn Féin’s David Cullinane gets the job, he may find his troubles are only beginning

Dept of Health reviewing HSE’s business case for relocation of NMH

The move cannot proceed without an approved business plan that is agreed to by Stephen Donnelly’s department and subject to an external assurance process

Taoiseach: ‘There’s no religious ethos in the new National Maternity Hospital and there will not be’

‘Legally guaranteed’ that abortions could be provided at new facility, Micheál Martin says

Holohan signals willingness to reconsider academic role

Chief Medical Officer says he would ‘prefer to be in a different situation in terms of where this has ended up’ during questioning on abandoned secondment to Trinity College

Watt says cancellation of Holohan’s TCD post a ‘matter of regret’

Top civil servant to tell politicians details around funding of chief medical officer’s salary yet to be agreed

A lottery of life: How a routine test changed a woman’s life

When Antonia Heffernan decided to get tested for cancer at the urging of a relative, she learned to her dismay that she carried the BRCA gene, which brings an 85 per cent chance of getting breast cancer