Child health screening and school immunisation programmes could be under threat as a direct result of deepening health service budget cuts.

THE HSE was last night accused of failing to shore up foster care services in parts of Dublin after a report showed that almost all relative foster carers had not been assessed.

JUST over 2,000 people have left the HSE under its once-off voluntary redundancy and severance schemes — which had targeted as many as 5,000 departures to save the system €400 million.

ONE-third of Irish people have cut the amount of junk food they buy amid growing concern among parents over child obesity.

THE controversial Leas Cross nursing home has reopened after agreeing changed standards and refurbishments with health inspectors.