Businessman Denis O'Brien is to taking over control of the Beacon private hospital in Dublin.

A PRIVATE hospital on the grounds of Ireland’s largest publicly owned hospital campus is not sustainable, groups fighting the controversial project told a public hearing yesterday.

WATERFORD’S new private hospital, the Whitfield Clinic, will open its doors to its first patients next week and is confident it will be able to provide radiotherapy for public patients within weeks.

A world-class private hospital officially opened today will care for public patients regardless of their background or income, it was vowed.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern brought a double dose of good news to Waterford yesterday — confirming that public patients will receive radiotherapy treatment at a new private clinic and vowing to support university status for Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT).

THE MEDIC behind a new private hospital with radiotherapy facilities in Waterford has said that any public private partnership deal at Waterford Regional Hospital (WRH) would impact on his proposed service.

DOCTORS developing a new private hospital in Waterford say their facility is ideal for radiotherapy services for public and private patients in the region.

Niamh Nolan