Padhraig O’Loughlin is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Mater Private, Cork.

More than 7,500 patients attended the Mater Private emergency departments in Dublin and Cork last year – a 27% increase in Cork and 6% in Dublin, compared to the previous year.

Mater Private Cork will add another 25 staff members once it adds two now operating theatres and a 30-bed day care ward by the end of 2019.

The head of the Mater Private Healthcare Group has called for a formal arrangement whereby a public hospital would block-book beds on a long-term basis in a private hospital for use when overcrowding occurs.

Almost half of the children on hospital trolleys yesterday were waiting more than nine hours for a bed, it has emerged.

Cork University Hospital has been forced to move patients to other hospitals in the region because of pressure on its resources due to overcrowding.

Mater Private Hospital together with Dukes Coffee Company and KSG at the City Gate Plaza, Mahon, Cork are organising a joint ‘Drink Tea for MND’ day to help support a very worthy cause.

Specialist heart nurse Padraig Denn says it’s important to respond quickly to early warning signs.

Roselyn Raj is the nurse manager of theatre recovery at Mater Private Hospital, Cork. She recently experienced a role reversal when she underwent an operation herself.

Joan Fahy is a senior nurse at Mater Private Hospital, Cork. One of her specialties is haemovigilance.

Every minute that passes, the chance of survival from cardiac arrest drops by 10%.

Dr Sarah Landers says smoking is the single biggest cause of disease and death in Ireland.

Dr Barry Hennigan is the newest consultant to join the Mater Private Hospital Cork.

Specialist physiotherapist Hugh Tobin looks at the evolution of the pelvis and spine and their importance in our daily lives.

With Daffodil Day just a week away, it’s that time of year again to highlight the truth about skin cancer.

PRICES are back on the march in Cork’s suburban and high-end Hettyfield: but, they are still are a long way short of boom-time levels of €1m and even €2m asking prices and sales.

It’s being described as a “breakthrough towards an artificial pancreas” and it has certainly transformed the life of diabetic Mary Vaughan.

A coroner has issued a second warning about prescribing a popular antibiotic to patients already on cholesterol-lowering drugs after details of another death caused by a rare but potentially fatal interaction between them emerged yesterday.

The Mater Private hospital in Cork will hold open interviews over Christmas to recruit over 25 nurses as part of its ongoing expansion.

The chief executive of Cork’s newest hospital has said that management at the facility can foresee further significant job announcements in the coming years.

The Vhi has signed a five-year deal with the Mater Private Hospital in Cork which will allow the extension of cardiology services and pave the way for the development of an integrated heart and vascular centre.

A woman who spent 90 minutes at Cork’s newest private hospital, where she underwent a cataract procedure, was charged €1,175 for use of a room, on top of consultant and anaesthesiologist fees.

Several Irish women know how Angelina Jolie felt when she took the option of radical surgery to reduce her breast cancer risk — because they made the same difficult decision, writes Áilín Quinlan

The head of one of the country’s largest private healthcare providers has confirmed that the Mater Private Hospital is planning to open in Cork on Jan 2.

Tommy Barker says this Shanakiel offering could be a high-class ‘penthouse’ purchase

The operations of Shanakiel Hospital are to be moved to the former Cork Medical Centre in Mahon in a move which will see the VHI provide cover for patients using the state-of-the-art €90m facility.

There are “very significant gaps” in the private hospital provision of cancer, cardiac, and orthopaedic services across the southern region.

People with private health insurance who live in the south are waiting longer for some orthopaedic services than those in the public system.

A €90m privately-developed hospital with the potential to create 250 jobs is to remain closed after the State-owned VHI said the facility is not required to meet its needs in Munster.

The VHI is expected to decide this week if it will cover Mater Private, Cork for the use of the €90m privately-developed hospital in Mahon for its members.

A CORK-BASED private hospital has backed VHI’s decision not to cover any new private hospitals in the city.

BON SECOURS, the country’s largest private healthcare provider, has been refused cover by VHI for a planned €80m extension at its Cork hospital.

A NEW private hospital planned for Cork city looks set to follow the same fate as its doomed predecessor following a VHI decision not to provide cover for its customers at the facility.

THE Health Service Executive is investigating all cases of narcolepsy in this country during the time that the swine flu vaccine, Pandemrix, was administered here.

THE Bon Secours Hospital in Cork is pressing ahead with plans for an €80 million expansion despite the announcement by the Mater Private that it intends to open a 75-bed hospital in the city by the end of the year.

ONE of the country’s leading private hospitals, the Mater Private, is to open in Cork by the end of the year as part of a €75 million investment.

KEY appointments to make cancer equipment available to hundreds of patients have not even been advertised, six months after the HSE was authorised to fill the roles.

MATER Private Healthcare has confirmed its interest in the takeover of a €90 million Cork hospital that closed just five months after it opened.