CORK people lead the way when it comes to being active, according to a study by the Department of Sport and Exercise Medicine at University College Cork and the Rheumatology Department at Cork University Hospital.

THE regional director of operations in HSE West, John Hennessy has claimed absenteeism in major acute hospitals is not being reduced quickly enough.

THE HSE has overspent its budget by €170 million to the end of May and claims it will now have to freeze all but the most critical vacancies to deal with the escalating pay costs.

THE controversial co-location plan to build private hospitals on public hospital grounds has been scrapped, leaving the taxpayer potentially exposed to a multimillion euro compensation bill.

THE mid-west Health Service Executive has been requested to suspend the proposed closure of a high-dependency unit at Ennis Hospital on March 1, along with other centralisation proposals, pending the completion of an independent review.

AVERAGE treatment waiting times for public patients have fallen to their lowest level ever at just two-and-a-half months.

THE cost of staying in a public nursing home is likely to be more expensive than a private facility under the new Nursing Home Support Scheme.

AN €8 million contract to design a new national children’s hospital has been awarded to a consortium of three architectural firms including the firm of designers of the new Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation headquarters in Seattle.

ONE in five patients in urgent need of assessment for breast cancer is not being referred for evaluation within the required two-week timeframe.

THE recent publication of the HSE review of acute hospital services in the mid-west — more commonly known as the Teamwork Report — represents a sick note for healthcare provision, both present and future, in the midwest region.

Three men were arrested tonight over the stabbing to death of a man at an apartment.

There has been a fatal stabbing in Nenagh, County Tipperary.

THIS IS the ninth European Day for Organ Donation and Transplantation.

As transplant delays continue, patients like 16-year-old Sally Nagle spend 10 hours daily on home dialysis, writes Catherine Shanahan.

SERVICES for the diagnosis of cancer at two hospitals will be scrutinised as part of a wide-ranging inquiry to determine how a woman was wrongly given the all-clear for breast cancer.

THE pathologist whose incorrect analysis led 41-year-old breast cancer patient Rebecca O’Malley to believe she did not have the disease worked at Cork University Hospital for at least one year, it has emerged.

A man is recovering in hospital after he was shot early this morning in Limerick.

Another girl seriously injured after fatal Limerick car crash

MEDICAL experts said yesterday much hardship will be alleviated for cancer patients, through having access to radiotherapy treatment in Limerick.

THE man shot and wounded early yesterday in Limerick was named locally as Aaron O’Brien from Delmege Park, Moyross.

A post-mortem is due this morning on the body of a young girl who died while horseriding in Co Clare yesterday.

A PRIVATE hospital could be built in the mid-west if Limerick’s Regional Hospital raised the funds for the project by selling four acres of its land, a health board report has revealed.

KILKENNY have a slight concern over star attacker Tommy Walsh for the All-Ireland hurling final against Cork.

NURSES at a second maternity hospital have warned that the health of mothers and babies is at serious risk because of a staffing crisis.

THE Irish Nurses’ Organisation has told its members to refuse work arising from unfilled posts or reduced overtime.

The body of a man has been found in the River Shannon.

Gardai have named the man and woman shot dead in Shannon last night.