SIPTU has warned that the risk to patients posed by cutbacks in the health service will continue next year because of further budget shortfalls.

AMBULANCE drivers, angered at the prospect of having their personal driving licenses endorsed for alleged traffic violations, are to protest at Government buildings next month.

Hundreds of geriatric and psychiatric patients in Ireland face disruption after medical workers said they would go on strike.

Nursing staff employed by the Eastern Regional Health Authority are to hold a four-hour stoppage next Monday.