Hospital overcrowding continued yesterday, with 500 people waiting for an in-patient bed, according to the Irish Nurses’ and Midwives’ Organisation.

January was the worst month on record for hospital overcrowding, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has said its figures show.

A judge, who last November rejected a €20,000 settlement offer to a three-year-old boy who lost the top of a finger in a “traumatic incident” involving a creche door, yesterday accepted an increased offer of €40,000.

More than 1.5 million school days are missed every year by children with asthma, it has emerged.

A 5-year-old boy who has been left brain-damaged and permanently disabled after a failure to diagnose an infection when he was a baby has settled his action against Temple Street Children’s Hospital, Dublin with an interim payout of €6.7m.

A new children’s triage system, the first of its kind, is to be introduced in emergency departments in the coming months.

An 11-year-old schoolboy, who broke his left ankle and right elbow when he fell while wall climbing, has been awarded €41,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

An 11-year-old whose right index finger was trapped in a seat while she attended a play was yesterday awarded €35,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A four-year-old girl who broke her left wrist after falling from a slide in a Dublin crèche has been awarded €15,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A 12-year-old schoolboy, who suffered injuries after he fell 12 feet to the ground from scaffolding, was yesterday awarded €25,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A man in his 60s died in a car crash in Bandon in Cork yesterday morning.

A 16-year-old student, who injured her left knee and back after she slipped and fell in a Tesco store, has been awarded almost €40,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A two-year-old boy, who fractured his skull after falling off a pram when he was only 10 weeks old, was yesterday awarded €25,745 in damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A 13-year-old schoolboy, whose left leg was impaled on a tree stump in Dublin Zoo, has been awarded €15,500 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A judge said a €61,000 settlement offer would not be enough to compensate a nine-year-old schoolgirl who broke her leg when a gate in Dublin’s inner city collapsed on her three years ago.

‘Hidden danger’ of parents rolling over children in driveway

Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has announced the launch of a new critical-care ambulance service to transfer seriously ill children between hospitals.

Significant deficiencies have emerged in a national audit in services for children with Type 1 diabetes.

More than one in five children are overweight or obese but there are some encouraging signs of stabilisation, according to data published by the HSE.

The HSE has warned it will cut its funding to five charities by 20% if they don’t try and comply with public health sector pay policy by Feb 21.

A voluntary children’s hospital has told the HSE it would apply for charitable funding for minor building jobs to allow it to reallocate money and indirectly cover its pension deficit.

The former head of the children’s hospital development board has been appointed to lead the new hospital group.

More than 100,000 people are expected to line the quays in Dublin for what promises to be a spectacular celebration of aviation.

We, the undersigned, call on Minister for Justice and Equality Alan Shatter and all Oireachtas members to support amending the Courts Bill 2013 to regulate the admission of the counselling notes of the child witness in a sexual violence criminal case.

Temple Street Children’s Hospital has apologised to the parents of a 10-month-old baby boy who died from a brain tumour after his diagnosis was delayed.

Cutting the budgets of best performing hospitals shows how dysfunctional the health service had become under the leadership of Health Minister James Reilly, Fianna Fáil has claimed.

We write to you as a group of hospital consultants working in close collaboration across the Mater, Temple St, and Rotunda Hospitals, on the pressing national issue regarding where to locate the long and urgently awaited new Children’s Hospital.

Hospital units treating child victims of sexual abuse are concerned over a growing number of requests for therapy notes, especially for use in court cases.

Hospitals are paying agencies €100 an hour for locums to plug the gaps in emergency departments (EDs) when the shortfall could be substantially addressed by creating a new grade of staff doctor.

A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy with a generous heart yesterday donated an aquarium complete with tropical fish, including Nemo fish and a seahorse, to the Children’s University Hospital in Dublin’s Temple Street.

PLANNING permission for a new National Children’s Hospital on a site adjacent to the Mater in Dublin city centre will be lodged within two weeks, the government confirmed yesterday.

A VITAL intensive care unit for some of the sickest children in the country has been opened at Our Lady’s Hospital in Crumlin.

RESEARCHERS believe they have found a way to identify women at risk of developing the worst form of cervical cancer, an illness which kills almost 100 Irish women every year.

A 14-YEAR-OLD schoolgirl who was struck on the head by the wing mirror of a passing mini-bus has been awarded €20,000 damages.

YOUNG patients at the Children’s University Hospital in Temple Street are being given a chance to indulge all of their senses thanks to a specially built outdoor wonderland.

FORMER heart surgeon Maurice Neligan has withdrawn his support for the building of the new national children’s hospital on a site in the centre of Dublin.

Dr Frank Dolphin has been named as the new chairman of the HSE succeeding Liam Downey who has completed the permitted two terms, it was announced today.

A TEN-YEAR-OLD girl who has spent her life being fed through a tube arising out of a rare disorder is finally able to eat following a specialised programme at a hospital in Austria.

IRELAND’S three main children’s hospitals have met over their planned merger.

UP to 2,700 sick children are on waiting lists for surgery or other procedures because they are not being referred for private care that they are entitled to under the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF).

CHILDREN as young as five have been treated for suicide attempts and self-harm, according to a leading child and adolescent psychiatrist.

OUR LADY’S Hospital for Sick Children last night confirmed that it had contacted the HSE in January with an initiative to cut waiting times for children who need urgent spinal surgery.

A new chairman has been appointed to the board of Temple Street Children's Hospital in Dublin.

THE Government “strongly reaffirmed” the decision to locate the new national children’s hospital on the Mater Hospital site in Dublin as Temple Street also backed the proposed location.

A THIRD of the 22,223 people awaiting surgical and other medical procedures have been waiting more than a year for treatment, new national figures show.

CHILDREN may be at risk from washing machine capsules containing liquid detergent that can squirt in their eyes and cause serious damage, doctors have warned.

PATIENTS needing plastic surgery are waiting for up to five years for treatment in the public health service, one of the country’s leading plastic surgeons said yesterday.

A FATHER and daughter remain in critical condition after a gas explosion at their home in Dublin.