Professor Barry O’Reilly, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, has joined the team at Mater Private Cork.

Residents living in Dublin’s north inner city have voiced support for the operation of a landing pad for helicopters at the Mater Hospital, despite concern by council planners about the impact of the facility on people living in the area.

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.

The most drastic action or “last resort” available to hospitals when dealing with emergency department (ED) overcrowding has already been deployed 1,600 times this year.

A woman who claimed there was a delay of 10 days in diagnosing a hip fracture after she had a fall in the Mater Hospital, Dublin has settled her High Court action for €110,000.

The number of patients walking out of emergency departments (ED) without being formally discharged has reached record levels.

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.

An internal review has started at the Mater Hospital in Dublin, where the radiologist at the centre of the scans recheck at University Hospital Kerry also worked, it has emerged.

“Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish co-operation of many individuals” — Albert Einstein

Surgeon Liam Kirwan has taken an historical look at the role of religion on Ireland’s healthcare system. He talks about where we are today to Colette Sheridan.

There were 520 patients on trolleys awaiting a bed yesterday, with Cork University Hospital recording the highest number in the country at 54.

Nobody has applied for the job of consultant cardiologist at the Mater Hospital in Dublin, despite the fact that the service dealing with adult congenital heart defects at the hospital has been stretched to breaking point.

Working in Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital, Noelle Healy has her good days and bad days. She’s seen things she probably wouldn’t want you to see and after a stint with the Mater’s cardiology team, Healy is now specialising in anaesthesia.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation claims almost 300 people are waiting for a bed at hospitals around the country today.

Industrial action will not get a single patient off a trolley, said Health Minister Leo Varadkar yesterday.

The Mater Hospital apologised in the High Court to a taxi man who has been left brain damaged after undergoing a routine heart bypass operation five years ago.

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The nursing shortage crippling healthcare delivery in hospitals will extend to nursing homes unless the Government urgently engages in workforce planning, Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI) has warned.

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.

The Government has been advised to cut the amount of money health insurers are charged for public hospital beds.

Construction work on the long-delayed new national children’s hospital will finally start early next year — provided the project overcomes an expected An Bord Pleanála grilling this autumn.

Former CRC boss Paul Kiely deliberately misled the public accounts committee over a claimed “phantom” €666,000 Mater pension fund.

The Government’s spending watchdog has demanded more than an apology from the former chiefs of scandal-struck Central Remedial Clinic (CRC).

While the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) is at the centre of the top-ups controversy, it is just one of 13 voluntary hospitals and agencies paying bosses extra salaries from “privately funded” sources.

Nearly three in every 1,000 people have tested positive for HIV during a ground-breaking new screening programme.

The HSE will claw back funds from any hospital or health agency which continues to flout a ban on top-up payments to senior officials.

Nurses have urged Health Minister James Reilly not to force through yet more budget cutbacks, warning the policy “is threatening patient safety and creating unacceptable delays in cancer treatment”.

Patients will die because of the scale of health cuts being imposed, opposition parties have warned after hospital chiefs voiced grave concerns.

A junior minister has denied the health budget for next year is unworkable despite a warning to the HSE from the heads of four of the country's biggest hospitals over cuts.

Government plans set to be announced next week could save the State €400m a year in legal cases against the HSE.

Junior doctors have claimed strong public support for their strike over working hours.

A Mater Hospital board member who claimed the facility would ignore new abortion laws as they contradict its Catholic ethos has resigned after being overruled by colleagues.

A priest has resigned from the board of the one of the country’s largest Catholic-owned hospitals after its decision to carry out abortions under new laws.

The Mater hospital has over-ruled a leading board member who insisted the facility would not comply with Ireland’s abortion laws.

A consultant at the Mater Hospital in Dublin is warning that any future HSE budget cuts will result in cuts to services.

Hospitals which refuse to carry out abortions to save women’s lives because of their religious ethos could face the withdrawal of State funding, the health minister has warned.

Despite the Government’s recent overwhelming majority on legislation allowing abortion in limited circumstances in this country, a potential obstacle remains in its path and threatens a looming clash with one voluntary hospital out of the seven selected among 25 hospitals nationwide as appropriate to perform abortions.

Outbreaks of flash flooding and thunderstorms caused major disruption to energy and transport services in Dublin early yesterday.

The Cabinet will sign off this morning on the reorganisation of the country's hospitals into six regional groupings.

The national children’s hospital proposed for St James’s in Dublin could run into IT and planning trouble but the Government has insisted it is the best choice of location.