The Health Minister is under fire for failing to honour a commitment to double the number of specialist Inflammatory Bowel Disease nurses.

An audit of nursing staff will be carried out at every hospital ward around the country, in a new plan announced by the Health Minister.

Health Minister Simon Harris has reassured voters and TDs that a diagnosis of a physical disability will not be legal grounds for an abortion, should the Eighth Amendment be repealed.

Public and private hospitals will be shut if they put patients lives at risk or fail to meet key targets under controversial new licensing plans.

A education programme for advanced nursing practise led by University College Cork will play a leading role in transforming the country’s health services.

Up to the end of last month, more than 80,000 patients had been left on a trolley so far this year.

A performance and oversight board to monitor the HSE should be in place next year once the necessary legislation is in place, according to the health minister.

How many businesses can survive a drop in payments of 35%-40% from the main purchaser of its services? asks Dr Catherine O’Donohoe.  

Health Minister Simon Harris has rejected claims the HSE is top-heavy with managers while shortages in frontline staffing cause waiting lists to soar.

Simon Harris is determined he can achieve what his predecessors were unable to do — fix the health service.

Thousands more people could receive medical cards as part of the upcoming budget, the health minister has said.

Health Minister Simon Harris will today discuss the cross-party report on healthcare with Cabinet colleagues and update them on Ireland’s bid to lure the European Medicines Agency here.

Health Minister Simon Harris has been urged to "publish all the deals and all the side deals" with a religious order involved in the mother and baby homes scandal over the building of the new national maternity hospital.

A €20m bid to reduce hospital waiting lists is being launched by the Health Minister this morning.

The Health Minister is set to take in a series of unannounced hospital visits today.

The Health Minister is warning HSE managers to live within their means and realise they are not getting a blank cheque.

The Health Minister has said he does not envisage cutbacks to services this year.

The new health minister has said there needs to be input from all parties on building the future of the health service.

The Health Minister has criticised Sinn Féin's track record in Government in the North.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar has said he would like to stay on in the role if Fine Gael are re-elected to Government.

The Health Minister Leo Varadkar has said insisting it will take “a number of years” to solve the country's trolley crisis.

The laws around abortion in Ireland are too restrictive, according to the Health Minister.

Industrial action will not get a single patient off a trolley, said Health Minister Leo Varadkar yesterday.

The Health Minister Leo Varadkar has said better paid emergency department nurses will not solve overcrowding.

The Health Minister Leo Varadkar has said Universal Health Insurance will not now be introduced until at least a third term of the current Government.

The Health Minister Leo Varadkar has said it is indefensible that any patient should spend more than 24 hours on a trolley in the Emergency Department.

The Health Minister Leo Varadkar has said he would have liked to see a sugar tax in Budget 2016, but that his request wasn’t granted.

A woman whose baby was one of those who died at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise is praising the Health Minister.

Parents of babies who died at the controversy-hit Midlands hospital in Portlaoise were not dealt with honestly, the Health minister has said.

Bereaved parents who met with the Health Minister last night say they want to see further changes at Portlaoise Hospital.

Bereaved parents who attended a meeting in Portlaoise with the Health Minister have said that the stories they heard are horrific and tragic.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar has said that it is almost impossible to strike a deal on free GP care for the under 6s that completely satisfies all sides involved.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar has been urged to ensure health service cutbacks are halted, after a leading doctors’ group warned the "alarming" funding drain is putting patients’ lives at risk.

Moves to ban "seductive" cigarette packaging and replace it with gruesome warnings mark a "bad day for big tobacco", Health Minister James Reilly has insisted.