There were 363 data-protection breaches recorded by the HSE in the first ten months of this year.

A small percentage of patients who present at emergency departments (EDs) are waiting at least two days to be admitted to hospital, while seven in 10 are not admitted within the HSE’s target time of six hours.

His mother said the park is in disrepair and many of the fixtures need to be renovated or replaced.

A teenager who suffered life-changing neck injuries in a fall while taking photos of the snow is expected to be transferred to Dublin for specialist treatment.

The whole country is this morning being warned to be braced for potentially life-threatening conditions, with a myriad of dangers including flying debris, surging seas, flooding, fallen trees, and downed but live electricity wires.

Paralysed jockeys and rugby players will be amongst the first to benefit from using an exoskeleton suit which has been purchased by a horseracing charity.

A Co Cork man who imprisoned and assaulted his ex-partner over a period of up to two hours, making her believe she was going to die, was yesterday sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment, with the last two years suspended.

A 32-year-old man who claims he was left with a brain injury after he tripped and fell in a car park at night has settled his High Court action for €1m.

The Health Service Executive has applied for funding to replace its laboratory IT system at Cork University Hospital, which crashed almost two weeks ago and remains out of service causing major delays in diagnostic services.

All of the acute hospitals in Cork and Kerry have now introduced an electronic referral system for GPs referring patients for public outpatient hospital appointments as part of a HSE national pilot project.

A ward in Mallow General Hospital in Co Cork was dirty throughout when health service inspectors saw it last April.

The first major extension in a number of years to a provincial hospital has been completed.

Mercy University Hospital in Cork has become the first hospital in Ireland to introduce an electronic referral system for GPs referring patients for general outpatient hospital appointments.

My reaction on reading the story on the failure by Cork University Hospital and Mallow General Hospital to observe infection control standards was sadness rather than shock or surprise.

A damning report by the health watchdog has found substandard bug control measures at two Cork hospitals are exposing patients to significant risk of infection.

More than 800 jobs are to be cut as part of a plan to slash budgets across health services in Cork and Kerry.

The 24-hour emergency department at Mallow General Hospital will close in late March as part of a major reorganisation of services at the hospital.

Hospitals across Ireland may be forced to cut back on already recession-hit services if Health Minister James Reilly stays loyal to his botched nurse graduate plan in its current form.

The security bill for Kerry General Hospital for the first nine months of 2012 was almost 10 times the cost of security services at Cork University Hospital.

An action group has claimed a success in ensuring a largely populated east Cork town will retain its ambulance service.

More than 250 people in North Cork last night gave an emphatic thumbs down to HSE plans to reduce bed numbers in Kanturk Community Hospital and downgrade local ambulance services.

PLANS to build a new medical assessment unit and an endoscopy unit at Mallow General Hospital have been copper fastened by the allocation of €1.5 million in funding for the project, according to Junior Minister Seán Sherlock.

THE Health Service Executive is abandoning a plan to shut the emergency department at Mallow General Hospital from this month because alternative services are not yet in place.

A 53-YEAR-OLD garda has been presented with a bravery award for rescuing an octogenarian from a blazing house.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is likely to come under further pressure today after the Health Information and Quality Authority released a timeline of its reports on regional hospitals.

A JUNIOR minister was heckled by protesters as he tried to hold a press conference in Mallow, Co Cork about proposals to axe the local general hospital’s 24-hour emergency department.

HEALTH chiefs have identified a further ten hospitals with “significant risk” issues for patients.

I WOULD like to share with you a positive story about our local health services.

HIQA and the HSE must be delighted. The template for closing any hospital is now clear. First, starve the institution of funds; ensure it can barely manage on a minimal budget; under no circumstances is any investment to be made; put in place a dysfunctional HSE management system.

A REPORT into the quality and safety of services at Mallow General Hospital found ongoing issues of concern among staff were not addressed by the Health Service Executive (HSE).

PROFESSOR Richard Greene, clinical director of the Cork University Hospital Group, said while he accepts criticism in relation to the slow pace of change in reforming services at Mallow General Hospital, the kind of change envisaged could not be achieved overnight.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has moved to reassure users of Mallow General Hospital that the service is safe.

The HSE has moved to reassure patients that Mallow General Hospital in Cork is safe after a damning report from the health watchdog.

Critically ill hospital patients were put at risk by inadequate out-of-hours staffing levels, a report has found.

A report into the quality and safety of certain services at Mallow General Hospital in Cork has found the HSE has been slow to implement recommended changes.

An inquiry into the quality and safety of certain services at Mallow General Hospital in Cork is to be published this morning.

CORK University Hospital and Kerry General Hospital have been rewarded for good levels of efficiency — by more than €2 million.

CORK’S official suicide rate has surged by more than 50% since the start of the economic crisis.

ADAM O’Connor was born a healthy nine pounds six ounces at Cork University Maternity Hospital on November 10, 2008.

IT is a source of great consolation to see the defence of the Bastille that is Mallow General Hospital once again led by a Sherlock.

TRADE union SIPTU has suggested that the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) carry out an audit of service provision in Cork University Hospital (CUH) due to overcrowding.