ACCESSING radiology services is proving increasingly difficult for family doctors, forcing some public patients to wait up to eight weeks for a simple bone X-ray, a new study has found.

HEALTH and support services for alcoholics will come under unprecedented pressure as the fallout from excessive and binge drinking begins in the next 10 to 20 years, an expert has warned.

INDEPENDENT TD Dr Jerry Cowley has called on Health Minister Micheál Martin to resign, blaming him for a litany of problems in health services in the west, including the deaths of almost 200 women from breast cancer.