The HSE has ordered hospitals and other groups to stop top-up payments to more than 130 people.

The Minister for Health James Reilly has said no acute hospital will close as a result of the reorganisation of hospitals.

The jury in the trial of a man who denies murdering his close friend, has heard that the accused had health problems at the time of the incident and was on long-term medication.

A Slovakian man is in a critical condition at St James's Hospital in Dublin with human swine flu.

The Health Service Executive has begun inviting tenders for the construction of private health facilities in the grounds of six public hospitals across the country.

WAS surprised, and disappointed, to see Taoiseach Bertie Ahern reiterating to Dáil Éireann on Wednesday, March 28, the myth that consultants in emergency medicine are not available after 5.30pm in accident and emergency departments.

Groups representing doctors and nurses are reacting with scepticism to improvements to Accident and Emergency units at three Dublin Hospitals.

St James's Hospital in Dublin has insisted that it is working to stamp out the problem of drug dealing on its premises.

THE Government is failing to honour a commitment given in 2000 to develop a strategy for people who are homeless and have mental health problems, it was claimed yesterday.

Dublin's five main training hospitals - the Mater, Beaumont, St Vincent's, St James's and Tallaght - are expected to announce further bed closures today due to a €100m budget deficit.

ALL the major Dublin teaching hospitals are likely to experience job losses because budget shortfalls will force ward closures, union sources have warned.

HOSPITAL services nationwide face a threat of industrial action and disruption because of a dispute involving the country’s 3,500 junior or non-consultant hospital doctors.

Gardai have recaptured a prisoner who escaped from custody this morning during a hospital visit.