Cork University Hospital had the second-highest number of admitted patients waiting for a bed last month, at 1,031

The number of women giving birth by Caesarean section (C-section) in Ireland continues to rise, year on year, as does the number of people taking antibiotics.

As hospitals brace themselves for industrial action, the country’s largest nursing union has called on the public to join in a major protest outside the Dáil today to highlight emergency department (ED) overcrowding.

A HSE audit has revealed that about 34,000 X-rays around the country were caught up in a backlog and had never been examined by a radiologist.

CUTBACKS by government departments may be greater than the 2.5% envisaged earlier this month, the Taoiseach has hinted.