The HSE has refused to reveal details of an investigation launched six years ago into the death of a patient in a Co Cork hospital.

THE closure of Victorian-era psychiatric institutions has been official Government policy for more than 40 years, yet hundreds of mental health patients still remain in outdated, unsuitable buildings.

HEALTH Minister James Reilly is being asked to explain why details of an inquiry costing more than €90,000 have still not been made public — nearly five years after an elderly patient’s death at a Co Cork hospital.

TAXPAYERS will have to pay a once-off €120,000 lump sum to 60 HSE workers whose jobs are being moved from north Cork to the city as the distance is just marginally further than what is allowed under the Croke Park agreement.

THE HSE is preparing to move the remaining 33 patients at Heatherside Hospital near Buttevant to a new community nursing home in Cork.

THE 30 remaining mental health patients at a hospital in north Cork will be transferred to a new facility in Cork city by the end of the year.

THE HSE has further refused to say if, or when, it will publish the findings of a report into the death of a 75-year-old woman at a hospital in north Cork.

AN independent investigation into the death of a 75-year-old patient at a north Cork hospital has finally been completed — nearly three years after the tragedy.

I WAS saddened to learn of the closure of Heatherside hospital in north Cork and the loss of so many good people who worked there.

UNEMPLOYMENT in Mallow has doubled in the last year it emerged yesterday as one of its biggest employers axed 100 jobs and announced reduced working hours in a desperate bid to save the plant.

THE report into the choking to death of a 75-year-old patient in a community hospital almost two years ago continues to be delayed.

MINISTER for Health Mary Harney will be pressed in the Dáil on the delay in completing an investigation into the death of a 75-year-old woman at a Co Cork hospital on June 22, 2006.

THE chairman of the HSE South Forum has expressed concern about the length of time it is taking to complete an investigation into the death of a 74-year-old woman at a community hospital in Co Cork.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has still not completed its investigation into the circumstances behind a 65-year-old woman’s death, almost seven months after she died from asphyxiation while strapped to a chair in a care home.

NO criminal charges are likely to be brought following the death of a woman strapped to a chair at a Cork nursing home last year.

DETAILS of the terms of reference and membership of an inquiry into the unexpected death of a 65-year-old woman at a North Cork nursing home have been published by the Health Service Executive (HSE).