The Irish Cancer Society and the Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute have joined forces to dispel the myths about the role of nutrition in cancer prevention and treatment.

People with little training beyond an online course bought on Groupon are advertising themselves as counsellors to the depressed and even suicidal — as there is no law stopping them.

More than a third of the country’s 64,000 nurses and midwives have paid their regulatory authority the full registration fee of €150.

Ireland’s first multi-profession health regulator now has statutory powers to examine complaints against social workers and other registered practitioners.

Rehab has today announced the appointment of its new chief executive, Mo Flynn, on a €140,000-a-year salary.

Since the reduction of guidance counsellors hours in post-primary schools, the incremental value to the exchequer has been imperceptible.

A lobby group for frontline social care workers has vowed to highlight systemic failures in the State’s social care machinery and how austerity is affecting the most vulnerable in society.

ONE OF the social workers had an unblinking stare which was fixed on me at all times.

THE new body which will begin disciplinary hearings involving social workers next year will not deal with older cases, it emerged yesterday.