Health Minister Simon Harris has asked the HSE to conduct an “evidence-gathering” exercise with state-funded organisations providing health and social care to establish a factual position on pay reductions and pay restoration.

A litany of failures at the home is an insult to the work of its founder and disturbing for anyone with relatives in care, writes Catherine Shanahan

A CHARITY has dramatically scrapped plans to charge its clients who have physical disabilities for the upkeep of their beds, mattresses and wheelchairs.

Brian Cowen’s budget was hailed as a triumph in recognising the needs of disabled people, but for those who care for them the reality is far different, Dan Buckley reports.

A national campaign is being launched to increase state funding of physical and sensory disability services.