SENIOR medics and management at two leading acute hospitals have united in their opposition to proposals for a new private co-located hospital at Cork University Hospital (CUH).

HOSPITAL electricians have accepted proposals aimed at ending a protracted dispute with health bosses sparked by light bulb changing procedures.

SEVERAL surgical procedures are likely to be postponed following confirmation last night that a busy hospital clinic will scale back its work over Christmas.

BABIES who cry a lot are at higher risk of child abuse, particularly shaken baby syndrome according to an expert in infant mental health.

THE south of the country remains without an orthopaedic surgeon to operate on babies with dislocated hips, eight months after the retirement of the only specialist qualified to do so.

SPECIALIST medical services outside Dublin are so thinly spread that the retirement of one consultant can bring the system to a halt, forcing infants to go to the capital for surgery.

HIP surgery patients face a delay of three years just to get onto a waiting list for treatment at one of the country’s largest hospitals, where consultants are dealing with a work-load three times the recommended level.

Gardaí have called for witnesses after a medical technician was attacked by two men at Youghal Community Hospital last night.

An investigation has been launched to establish how up to 1,000 patients attending two regional hospitals in the south contracted Hepatitis B.

Four Cork hospitals have now been hit with the winter vomiting bug, it emerged tonight.