Health Minister Dr James Reilly says numerous issues identified in today’s report by the State’s health safety watchdog on Tallaght Hospital have already been acted on.

THERE has been a failure to communicate with people on the benefits of reconfiguring hospital services and to understand people’s fear of change, a Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health has heard.

THE Health Service Executive’s reconfiguration programme is all about patient safety and is not a process for closing down rural hospitals, the man charged with the task has insisted.

WOMEN may not be getting the same standard of treatment for heart disease as men because it is mistakenly seen as a male health problem, a doctor warned yesterday.