The HSE’s “service plan” budget document should allow funding to be cut from hospitals if they fail to address the top-up payments scandal, health bosses have been told.

Further health cuts could be on the way because of a budget over-run at the HSE.

THE Government’s decision to sell the VHI and introduce a new risk equalisation scheme will not stop the surge in the cost of health insurance, an economics expert has warned.

PUBLIC health doctors have called for mandatory rehabilitation for anyone found guilty of drink driving.

THE number of patients seeking treatment for drug and alcohol abuse has jumped dramatically since the onset of the recession, according to family doctors.

SERIOUSLY ill children are not receiving adequate levels of support and end of life care because of a lack of state funding for the vital service.

THE economic burden of gastroenteritis on the island of Ireland is more than €135 million a year.