The management of patients requiring acute admission to Tallaght Hospital, and who receive initial care in the hospital’s A&E department, poses “a serious risk” to these patients, the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has said.

CHRONIC pain is a major health issue and is placing a “significant economic burden” on the country with up to 36% of adults suffering, a report has said.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) awarded a company a €56 million contract this year, despite one of the country's biggest hospitals expressing repeated dissatisfaction with the same firm.