THE Bon Secours Hospital in Cork is pressing ahead with plans for an €80 million expansion despite the announcement by the Mater Private that it intends to open a 75-bed hospital in the city by the end of the year.

ONE of the country’s leading private hospitals, the Mater Private, is to open in Cork by the end of the year as part of a €75 million investment.

MORE than 100 unsecured creditors of a former private hospital who between them are owed more than €4 million are unlikely to receive any money following liquidation of the company.

MATER Private Healthcare has confirmed its interest in the takeover of a €90 million Cork hospital that closed just five months after it opened.

THE number of patients treated on hospital trolleys yesterday was 500, which exceeds a level once referred to by Health Minister Mary Harney as a national emergency.

HUNDREDS of sufferers of debilitating conditions like Parkinson’s, essential tremor and dystonia are set to benefit from a revolutionary surgery allowing them to control the outward symptoms of the diseases.