Actors playing distraught relatives helped test emergency services to the limit during the first major Child Rescue Ireland (CRI) alert exercise in the Cork region.

A man who took ill at a work reunion less than a mile from a county hospital but who had to wait 30 minutes for an ambulance later died in hospital.

An ambulance ran out of fuel while transferring a transplant patient from Cork to Dublin for an urgent lung transplant, a report has confirmed.

A SYSTEM set up since the Meadhbh McGivern case means the HSE’s National Ambulance Service (NAS) now gets updates twice a day on the availability of emergency aircraft and gets instant alerts if any of those aircraft become unavailable.

A teenage girl missed a vital liver transplant in London because of a lack of leadership and an unreliable system for arranging rapid air ambulance transport, a health watchdog has found.

Minister for Health James Reilly, the Health Service Executive and Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin have welcomed a HIQA report into the failutres which prevented a teenage transplant patient from travelling for surgery.

A Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) inquiry into the failed transportation of Leitrim girl Meadhbh McGivern for transplant surgery last month has found that an "inherently risky" system that relied on individuals led to the failure.