The Health Service Executive is due to publish a series of reports today into the cancer misdiagnosis scandal at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise.

MANAGERS at Cork’s Mercy Hospital yesterday denied claims its busy warfarin clinic was to close next week.

WITH the delivery of the national cancer treatment plan now three years behind schedule, many cancer patients have simply given up any hope of receiving life-saving therapy in their community, Labour’s Liz McManus claimed yesterday.

The health service will not be able to cope with an escalation of industrial action, it was claimed today.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) today insisted it acted on warnings from a TD over the welfare of a troubled 14-year-old girl who died after inhaling aerosols.

HOSPITALS will forfeit a slice of their annual funding for failing to tackle the A&E crisis and to maintain acceptable hygiene standards, it was learned yesterday.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has no plans to increase bed numbers despite lack of capacity being responsible for the bulk of the 22,000 operations postponed last year.

IT is cruel, unnecessary and a waste of enormous talent to force young people with mental health problems to wait up to three years for a psychiatric assessment, a conference heard last night.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has said it is working with an illegal residential centre for young asylum seekers to improve its standard of care.

TENS of thousands of people are being forced to spend up to €150 on tests for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) due to waiting lists of up to eight weeks at many public hospital clinics or due to inconvenient opening hours.

The Health Service Executive has published guidelines aimed at controlling the spread of so-called "superbugs" like MRSA in Irish hospitals.

PATHOLOGISTS have stopped doing post mortems at Nenagh General Hospital citing health and safety reasons.

GPS HAVE no grounds to boycott the 200,000 doctor-only cards which are due to come on stream next month, according to Tánaiste Mary Harney.