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.

THE controversial investigation into Mallow General Hospital (MGH), which could result in the facility being severely downgraded or closed, is not based on any formal complaint by patients or medical staff.

MALLOW GPs have demanded to know the nature of the complaint which has initiated an investigation into Mallow General Hospital (MGH).

Catherine Shanahan says the HSE was as surprised as anyone by move to investigate Cork hospital

ACUTELY ill patients are being treated in hospitals where the volume of patients is too low or the depth of clinical staffing cover is insufficient for care to be provided reliably and safely, according to the health watchdog.

AN investigation into standards of care at Mallow General Hospital has been branded a “sneaky and underhand” campaign to downgrade services at the hospital.

THE doctor tasked with overseeing the reconfiguration of hospitals in the Health Service Executive (HSE) South has pledged to end the use of trolleys within two years.

A HOSPITAL which has been unable to recruit a consultant radiologist to read CT scans has to send the specialised x-rays by taxi every day to a hospital 30km away where they are interpreted.

ROUND-the-clock emergency care will cease at Monaghan General Hospital (MGH) on July 22 and patients with an acute illness or in need of acute surgery will have to travel elsewhere.

For the past three weeks, the Health Service Executive (HSE) has been spending about €6,000 a week sending public patients from Mallow General Hospital (MGH) to the Bon Secours private hospital in Cork for CT scans, while a scanner lies idle at MGH.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) was yesterday given two weeks to fund a surgical post at an acute hospital or face public protests.

MORE than 20 hospitals have had their budgets slashed by a total of €9.37 million as a result of inefficiencies in 2004.

THE needless death of a patient in Monaghan General Hospital (MGH) has caused national outrage. The current trawl for a scapegoat is misconceived, however.

Two people, including a prominent Irish cardiologist, were shot dead at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

A PROMINENT Irish cardiologist was one of two people shot dead yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.