Yearly Archives: 2025

Mater Private Network opens €12 million new Cork Heart Centre

The Mater Private Network Cork has announced the official opening of its €12 million new Cork Heart Centre.  The investment includes the expansion and extended...

Roles of Ministers of State at the Department of Health

Mary Butler TD is Government Chief Whip and Minister for State with responsibility for Mental Health. A Mental Health Bill to comprehensively overhaul and update mental health legislation was...

Cervical Cancer Elimination

Health Minister, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill  has  announced €530,000 in funding for cervical cancer elimination. The funding from the Women’s Health Fund will support the delivery...

Minister opens Supra Regional Endometriosis Centre in Cork

Health Minister, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill officially opened the Supra Regional Endometriosis Centre, to provide specialist care for women, at the Lee Clinic, Lee Road, Cork. The...

Steady increase in the healthcare workforce in Ireland

Data for 2024 shows a steady increase in the healthcare workforce in Ireland, with a 4% rise in physicians, a 3% rise in midwives,...

Patients can now access more specialist, high-quality care closer to home

Patients can now access more specialist, high-quality care closer to home with new, reformed and integrated ways of working across healthcare services, according to...

HSE Says Enhanced Community Care Improving health outcomes for patients across Ireland

The HSE said it is making significant progress in improving healthcare for older adults and people with chronic diseases through the Enhanced Community Care...

A wider roll out required of health checks to rural communities

The pilot Health Check Initiative, which offered free health checks to farmers exceeded its targets and identified that demand exists for a wider roll...

Hereditary Haemochromatosis (HH) Education Programme

HSE West and North West have rolled out a Hereditary Haemochromatosis (HH) Education Programme for GP Practices in partnership with The Irish Haemochromatosis Association. This...

CICER to develop a tool to estimate the cost of infectious disease outbreaks in public acute hospitals

CICER, the Centre in Ireland for Clinical guideline support and Evidence Reviews, has commenced research to develop and pilot a tool to estimate the...

PPS numbers being added to patients’ electronic records and paper registration forms

PPS numbers are being added to patients’ electronic records and paper registration forms. The HSE said this will mean the following key changes for healthcare...

New development at TUH

A multidisciplinary design team has begun work on a two-part construction project at Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin. The project will provide four new inpatient wards,...

Majority of people living with end stage kidney disease report their treatment is ‘the best it can be.’

High levels of satisfaction with renal care services, with 80% of dialysis patients and 79% of transplant recipients reporting that their treatment is 'the...

A record €1.33 billion in health capital funding for 2025

Capital funding for the construction and equipping of healthcare facilities in 2025 is a record €1.33 billion. Investment in 2025 will enable the progression of...

Acute Developments in 2025

A total of €200m will go towards the completion of the New Children’s Hospital, which it is stated will also be commissioned. €12.13m will be...

MSc in Health Policy & Management 2025-2026

The Centre for Health Policy & Management, School of Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin is now accepting applications  for its MSc in Health Policy &...

Official Opening of the Joe & Helen O’Toole Community Stroke Hub at the Croí Heart & Stroke Centre, Galway

Croí celebrated a landmark moment in stroke recovery and rehabilitation with the official opening of the Joe & Helen O’Toole Community Stroke Hub, marking...

Dr Maria O’Kane appointed as new Medical Council  Chief Executive Officer

The Medical Council has appointed Dr Maria O’Kane as its new CEO, following a competitive recruitment process.  Dr O’Kane replaces Mr Leo Kearns, who finished...

Two health regions to deliver Brighter Beginnings

The Minister for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy, Jennifer Murnane O’Connor, has announced the two health regions selected to deliver Brighter Beginnings,...

Monthly waiting list figures – April 2025

The Depasrtment of Health said the latest hospital waiting list figures for April published by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) underlined the progress achieved through...

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