Cork University Hospital (CUH) now has the “cleanest hospital rooms that exist in healthcare worldwide” within its new cystic fibrosis (CF) ward, effectively removing the threat of cross infection to patients.

A 20-bed adult respiratory ward at Cork University Hospital (CUH) containing isolation facilities vital to the health of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, is finally set to open next weekend, several months behind schedule.

A 27-year-old woman with cystic fibrosis (CF) who travelled from Waterford to Cork University Hospital (CUH) for treatment was sent home because there were no beds available — while a 20-bed respiratory ward within the hospital remains closed.

The standard one-year warranty on 10 PlayStations bought for the entertainment of children hospitalised with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is in danger of expiring before the ward for which they were purchased even opens.

More than a month into a high-profile campaign to attract 500 nurses back to Ireland, just 10 had joined the health service.

A charity that raised €2.3m to build a ward designed to make hospital stays less life-threatening for cystic fibrosis patients has been told it is unlikely to open before October, eight months behind schedule.

We as a family appeal to Health Minister, Leo Varadkar to intervene in the delayed opening of the new cystic fibrosis/respiratory ward 5B in Cork University Hospital.

Mary Harney’s legacy of her years as an effective politician and minister will forever be tarnished by her years as the Minister of Health and the driver of the HSE.

The HSE’s national recruitment service has been asked to prioritise staffing a new €2.3m respiratory ward, funded by a charity, that remains closed at Cork University Hospital (CUH) due to nurse shortages.

Junior Health Minister Kathleen Lynch said she was “disappointed” with the delayed opening of a new €2.3m respiratory ward at Cork University Hospital funded by charity but said the hospital was struggling to fill 40 nursing posts.

A vital cystic fibrosis (CF) respiratory ward at Cork University Hospital, funded to the tune of €2.3m by a charity, has not opened because of staffing shortages.

Catherine Shanahan examines the hurdles charity Build4Life has faced in ring-fencing beds for CF patients at Cork University Hospital

Another week, another HSE scandal. This week opens with the disclosure that a new respiratory ward specifically to help cystic fibrosis patients at Cork University Hospital, one funded by a charity to the tune of €2.3m, stands idle because the health service does not have the staff to man it.

The HSE has been instructed to redraw plans relating to specialist treatment rooms for children with cystic fibrosis (CF) at Cork University Hospital (CUH) after Health Minister Leo Varadkar intervened at the behest of a CF charity.

A cystic fibrosis (CF) charity that has single-handedly funded the overhaul of facilities for CF patients in a public hospital at a cost of almost €3m has called on the Government to waive a €400,000 tax bill. 

One lucky Irish Euromillions winner woke up €86.7 million richer this morning. It’s a mind-boggling sum and most people are wondering how they could possibly spend it. Here are our suggestions:

Work is due to get underway on the construction of a long-awaited 20-bed inpatient respiratory ward at Cork University Hospital, funded by Munster-based cystic fibrosis (CF) charity Build4Life.

A Munster-based charity which has raised €3.6m towards improving outcomes for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients at Cork University Hospital (CUH) has been honoured for its efforts.

Crusading Evening Echo journalist Deirdre O’Reilly, who is recovering after a devastating stroke, is among several leading figures who will be honoured by Cork’s Lord Mayor tonight.

A row between Cork University Hospital and Cystic Fibrosis charity Build4Life over the ring-fencing of beds threatened the building of a new €2.3m ward. Build4Life founder Joe Browne is happy to draw a line under the saga as agreement is finally reached

A row over the ring-fencing of beds for cystic fibrosis patients at a Cork hospital has been resolved, paving the way for the handover of €2.3m to fund a respiratory ward.

A compromise has been reached in a row between a cystic fibrosis (CF) charity and a Cork hospital that will pave the way for the development of a new €2.3m respiratory ward.

The dispute between Build4Life and CUH management about the ring-fencing of in-patient facilities for cystic fibrosis patients highlights the extraordinary efforts of the charity in fundraising for these much-needed services.

Efforts to broker an agreement that would end a row between a Cork hospital and a cystic fibrosis (CF) charity over the ring-fencing of beds are to continue next week after talks last night ended without a breakthrough.

The mortality rate among inpatients with a chronic lung disease at a Cork hospital was at one stage more than double the rate in Britain, according to figures presented by doctors petitioning for a new respiratory ward.

Junior Health Minister Kathleen Lynch has said she is hopeful of a breakthrough in the protracted dispute between a Cork hospital and a cystic fibrosis charity that has stalled the development of a €2.3m ward for patients with respiratory illness.

Re your Where Are They Now piece on the Young Scientists — I just wish to note that Jean Byrne, 1992 Young Scientist, sadly passed away in 2007 from the complications of cystic fibrosis. She was just 31 years old and had been heavily involved in CF campaigning and education.

One of the country’s leading campaigners for improved cystic fibrosis services has urged a charity that raised funds for a Cork hospital not to hand over the money until beds are ringfenced for CF patients.

The head of a cystic fibrosis charity has called for the appointment of an independent expert to help resolve a row over bed designation for CF patients at a Cork hospital.

PLANS to build a 20-bed respiratory ward at Cork University Hospital have stalled because the hospital has refused to ring-fence any of the beds for adults with cystic fibrosis (CF).

Most kids bat off minor bugs fairly effortlessly but not Fíonn Flannery O’Riordan.

Charlie Kelleher was in hospital for his first birthday and antibiotics have loomed large in his first two years of life.

The stand-off between a cystic fibrosis charity and a Cork hospital over the ringfencing of beds means work is yet to begin on building a ward which should be complete by now.

Yet again we are dismayed at what appears to be another broken promise by the HSE via the Minister for Health, James Reilly and the management at Cork University Hospital.

Cystic Fibrosis Ireland (CFI), the national charity, has met with the hospital management, clinicians and the HSE and has urged that a speedy resolution is found to end the dispute that is holding up the development of a new inpatient facility in Cork University Hospital.

My son, Rian, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when he was 10 months old. He is now three and doing quite well. My knowledge of this illness was minimal, but my family and I have had to learn.

I am writing to express huge disappointment with regard to the current dispute over the allocation of beds for Cystic Fibrosis sufferers in the adult ward of the Cork University Hospital.

Having read Kara and Hugh O’Callaghan’s letter to the editor (Jan 1), I am disgusted that there is any doubt that the HSE, via Health Minister James Reilly and the management at CUH, might not fulfil the promise of ring-fencing the agreed beds for cystic fibrosis patients.

We are writing to express our utter disappointment and heartbreak at the developing crisis regarding cystic fibrosis beds in CUH.

To find out at three-weeks old that your perfect newborn child has cystic fibrosis is devastating.