The Government is reportedly set to shelve the recommendations contained in the contentious Hanly Report on hospital reform.

LOBBYISTS campaigning against the downgrading of small hospitals are considering entering an alliance with new patients’ group Patients Together.

THE group opposed to the Hanly report and plans to downgrade 26 acute hospitals nationwide vowed yesterday to continue their fight, even though the plan has been put on hold.

An overwhelming majority of Irish consultants and doctors reportedly believe that the Hanly Report on hospital reform will never be implemented.

Reform of the health service is on shaky ground following the departure of managerial expert David Hanly, it was claimed tonight.

Morning Ireland, RTÉ’s flagship current affairs show, is celebrating it 20th anniversary. Political Editor Harry McGee, who worked on the programme, reports:

A YEAR-LONG report into the death of two-year-old Róisín Ruddle will not be published for a number of months, it emerged yesterday.

HAVING failed to undermine RTÉ's TV chat show foundation, controversial broadcaster Eamon Dunphy is setting his sights on early morning radio.

A hard-hitting study offering an alternative to the Government’s Hanly report is to be launched by a health services action group today.

TWENTY-four-hour medical cover meant patients with heart attacks, spinal or head injuries, and accident victims will be stabilised in hospitals like Nenagh and Ennis before transfer to major trauma centres in Cork and Limerick, sais Health Minister Micheál Martin yesterday.

The author of the Hanly Report on hospital reform has reportedly claimed that the implementation of his report is being affected by politics and the upcoming local elections.

A FURIOUS row has broken out between the Government and critics of its plans to centralise acute hospital care with both sides accusing the other of lying.

THE Government believes that an A&E department at Ennis hospital is unnecessary.

A group of the country's most senior medical experts today launched an attack against the Government’s controversial Hanly report.

THE Government has been warned it could face hefty fines from the EU if it fails to implement the controversial recommendations of the Hanly report to reform the health services.

AIR ambulances will be the key to the success of the Hanly Report on medical manpower, a leading accident and emergency specialist said yesterday.

AN independent investigation into the events surrounding the death of a two-year-old Limerick girl after her heart operation was postponed is expected to be completed in late September.

FIANNA FÁIL TD Ned O’Keeffe was charged yesterday with making scurrilous accusations against the management at a school where a classroom ceiling collapsed on children, after he suggested the accident was allowed to happen.

MORE consultants are to be brought into hospitals shortly on a pilot basis, Health Minister Micheál Martin confirmed yesterday.

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