WHILE most of the mothballed hospital facilities can be attributed to a simple shortage of funds at the Department of Health, the fiasco of the vacant health centre in the €60 million civic building in Ballymun exposes a glaring lack of co-ordination between the various health authorities.

New hospital wards are being built across the country, only to stay idle because of a lack of funding to staff them, writes Paul O'Brien.

A HEALTH board which spent €3,000 conducting interviews in Canada for childcare staff has been accused of wasting taxpayer's money and ignoring suitably qualified Irish staff.

ONE of the country’s busiest family planning clinics has had to cancel services for medical card holders due to lack of funding.

ONE of the country’s busiest family planning clinics has been forced to cancel services for medical card holders for the rest of the year because of a lack of funding.

HEALTH care facilities worth up to €150 million are lying idle around the country because of government funding shortages.

NURSING unions are forecasting further hospital bed closures as health boards struggle to stay within budget in the face of soaring overtime bills.

HUNDREDS of nurses are threatening strike action following a decision by management to close beds and cut nursing posts at a Dublin hospital.

NURSES are calling on a Dáil committee to investigate a “disastrous” new psychiatric unit, which they say will cost taxpayers about €750,000 to rectify.

THERE was growing concern last night for a disturbed teenage girl who has been missing for over two weeks.

A WEXFORD couple have put their wedding and career plans on hold because of a blunder over funding for a psychology course at Trinity College Dublin.