Legal changes to forcibly isolate people with coronavirus are being urgently considered by the Department of Health.

Cervical cancer patient and campaigner Lorraine Walsh has criticised the Department of Health for not involving patient representatives in the planning stages of the ex gratia payment scheme announced in March.

The Irish Medical Organisation has announced a €210m Government deal for general practice after long-running talks with the Department of Health.

No one has been asked to resign over the escalating cost of the new children’s hospital, a Department of Health official told an Oireachtas committee.

The Office of Public Works paid millions in rent on a building that no one used for more than a year, according to a new report from the State's public audit office.

The Taoiseach says there is a lot of double counting in the hospital waiting list figures.

The relocation of the Department of Health headquarters is reported to be imminent.

A psychiatrist has described cannabis as a “destructive, nasty, evil drug” and that a lot of people are trying to say it does not have negative consequences.

A doctors organisation still maintains cuts imposed on GPs’ fees to stabilise the State’s finances are far greater than that claimed by the Department of Health.

It is all too easy to despair of our health service. There are so many problems with it that it is often seen as an impossible task to make real improvements.

The Health Minister says it is time to break the cycle of overcrowding in the health service.

The family law court in Ennis has heard that a 10-year-old boy is having ‘suicidal thoughts’.

The HSE is due to reveal its service plan for 2018 later today

A licence for medicinal cannabis has been granted for the treatment of chronic pain for the first time. The move has been described by the medical profession as an “important development”.

More than two-thirds of people on delayed discharge in hospitals are awaiting nursing home care.

It will take “two to three years” before home care is regulated to protect vulnerable older people, an official from the Department of Health said yesterday.

A new campaign is being launched today to tackle childhood obesity.

The Department of Health has revealed that it will be at least another three years before psychologists will be fully regulated in Ireland — despite the introduction of legislation paving the way for registering the profession more than 10 years ago.

The Psychiatric Nurses Association has said it is escalating its industrial action.

The HSE and Tusla is to review the case of a young woman with intellectual disabilities who was left in a foster home after an allegation of abuse was made against a member of her carer's family.

The Department of Health has released a statement addressing current delays in the nursing registration process.

Over 100,000 children have signed up for the new free GP care for children under 6 service, since registration started on June 15th.

Minister after minister has climbed into the hot seat at the Department of Health and walked away in defeat. 

Minister of State at the Department of Health Kathleen Lynch has said the cost of delivering free GP care to under 6s and over 70s was always going to be higher than the €37m the Government had hoped for.

James Reilly, the health minister, has blamed the medical card debacle on his colleagues saying there has been "no political will" or support on the issue at Cabinet.

Health Minister James Reilly has admitted the Coalition is inflicting "tremendous distress" on people through widespread medical card reviews, as the issue threatens to damage government party support in Friday’s elections.

The Government’s final austerity budget is facing a major crisis halfway after Health Minister James Reilly said his department cannot achieve a fifth of its planned savings.

James Reilly does not rate highly with many people as health minister, but who would want his job, asks Catherine Shanahan.

More than 230,000 animals were used for experimentation in Irish laboratories in 2012 — more than six times the number used in 2005.

It has emerged that Scotland stopped taking Irish children into its care facilities in recent years because it did not have enough space for them in its care system.

Doctors have threatened to seek a High Court injunction to stop the Department of Health from changing GP contracts without talks.

The Junior Finance Minister has admitted that the Government will be hard pushed to achieve universal free GP care by 2016.