Yearly Archives: 2023

Three new Primary Care Centres

Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly visited Cavan and Monaghan to officially open three new Primary Care Centres - Killeshandra Primary Care Centre, Clones Primary Care Centre...

Groupwide, Digital Transformation Programme

Blackrock Health has made a €25 million investment in a new, groupwide, digital transformation programme. The investment introduces the very latest in electronic health...

Official opening of Oncology Interim Unit

University Hospital Kerry (UHK) has announced the official opening of its newly renovated Interim Oncology Day Ward. The hospital says located within the hospital in...

New Ward Opened at Portiuncula

Portiuncula University Hospital has officially opened the Dunlo Ward, a new 12 bed ward consisting of eight single ensuite rooms and two double ensuite...

New HSE National Youth Mental Health Office

A new National Youth Mental Health Office in the HSE was announced by the Minister for Mental Health and Older People, Mary Butler, in...

Increase in incidence of Childhood and Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer

There has been an increase in the  incidence of Childhood and Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer (AYA) between 1996 and 2020 and ongoing significant reductions...

Croom Orthopaedic Hospital Staff Health and Wellbeing Centre

The Croom Orthopaedic Hospital Staff Health and Wellbeing Centre was opened in the Autumn.Located in a renovated building on the hospital grounds, the new...

Hospital Targeted Activity Continued To Run Ahead Of Plans

Hospital waiting lists published in September by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) showed that targeted activity under the Waiting List Action Plan continued...

Model of healthcare services for Traveller women experiencing or at risk of homelessness

The Minister for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy, Hildegarde Naughton has announced details of the Community Healthcare Organisations selected to develop...

Bantry Primary Care Centre

Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly has cut the ribbon on Bantry Primary Care Centre, home to 18 medical and healthcare services and two GP practices,...

Staff being recruited to support new Memory Services

Minister for Mental Health and Older People, Mary Butler marked World Alzheimer’s Day 2023 by announcing over 160 staff were being recruited to support...

Faculty Supports Legislation To Ban Disposable Vapes

The Faculty of Paediatrics at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland has strongly supported the introduction of legislation to ban disposable vapes to...

Public consultation on further regulation of vapes and tobacco

A public consultation to help inform future regulation of tobacco and nicotine inhaling products, such as e-cigarettes or ‘vapes,’ has been launched by Minister for Health,...

Staff shortages and referral backlog fuelling abuse against doctors

Three in five doctors (60%) in Ireland have experienced or witnessed verbal or physical abuse from patients or their relatives within the past 12...

Integrated Teams at Roscommon Primary Care Centre

The Integrated Eye Clinic and Integrated Continence Care Clinic teams at the Roscommon Primary Care Centre has enabled patients from the East/North East Galway,...

Review of national public health strategies

HIQA has published a review of national public health strategies in selected countries. The findings of this report will support the work of the...

Spinal Muscular Atrophy added to National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme

Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly TD has asked the (HSE) to add Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) to the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme. The...

New strategy will see RCSI enhance contribution to health and well-being and sustainable development

RCSI says a new five-year strategic plan which it has launched will see it enhance human health by meeting the health workforce needs of...

Co-designing a National Quality and Patient Safety (QPS) Competency Framework with healthcare staff, educators and patients

Members of the National QPS Competency Framework Project Team, Dr Mary Browne, HSE, Dr Aoife DeBrún, UCD, Veronica Hanlon, HSE, Dr Dimuthu Rathnayake, UCD...

Professor Mary Horgan to design a dedicated, emerging health threats agency

Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly, has announced the appointment of Professor Mary Horgan to lead the design of a new emerging health threats agency.  The agency...

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