The Tánaiste says "it is regrettable" that the Health Service Executive has had to announce cuts to services for older people and those with disabilities.

Taoiseach Enda kenny has today insisted that the Health Service Executive has a contingency plan to deal with staff departures.

The Health Service Executive considering whether to recall hundreds of patients whose flu vaccines were incorrectly administered.

BLOOD transfusion safety could be compromised because of insufficient investment during the economic downturn, the Irish Blood Transfusion Service has warned.

Two Roscommon councillors have demanded Taoiseach Enda Kenny apologise to their constituents as they quit Fine Gael over the downgrading of hospital services.

The Health Service Executive has admitted that two out of every five patients wait longer than its target of six hours to be seen in Accident and Emergency departments.

ALMOST two million swine flu vaccines bought by the Health Service Executive during the pandemic scare were never used.

Tánaiste Mary Coughlan has today confirmed that the Health Service Executive will reveal in a matter of days the number of children who have died in State care.

ENABLE Ireland has told its staff it has been left in a “critical” financial situation after the Health Service Executive confirmed it was imposing a funding cut in line with the public sector pay cuts announced in the budget.

THE Ryan Report was published five months ago.

The Health Service Executive is due to tell unions today that it is laying off about 1,000 temporary workers.

The jury in the Melissa Mahon murder trial was today sent home for a second evening after failing to reach a verdict.

JUST five of the 22 juvenile asylum seekers who went missing from the care of the Health Service Executive last year were later found.

A 16-year-old boy arrested in December in connection with a €180,000 heroin seizure was today served with a book of evidence and sent forward for trial to the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Judge has called on the Health Service Executive to attend the court case of a 15-year-old girl living in “appalling” conditions in a run-down house without heat, electricity or running water.

FINE GAEL leader Enda Kenny told the Dáil it was “a disgrace” that a school was forced to convert a toilet into a classroom after the Irish Examiner highlighted the situation yesterday.

CREATING centres of excellence to treat cancer is no guarantee breast cancer survival rates will improve, a consultant surgeon has warned.

Clare Local Authorities and the Health Service Executive today reminded water consumers in the Ennis area to continue to observe the partial boil notice, which is in place.

THE Labour Court has told the Health Service Executive it is not entitled to claim back overpayments made to more than 100 nurses through the controversial Personal Payroll and Related Systems (PPARS).

UP to 50 nurses a day phone in sick at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, the Health Service Executive claimed yesterday.

MANAGEMENT of Barringtons Hospital met with Health Minister Mary Harney last night to try to agree terms for a review of breast cancer patient files following concerns over the misdiagnosis of women attending the hospital.

Nurses are expected to continue talks with the Health Service Executive for a number of days in an effort to resolve their dispute over pay and working hours.

The head of the Health Service Executive has blasted what he described as attempts to block the opening of Cork University Maternity Hospital.

The Irish Hospital Consultants Association has accused the Health Service Executive of deliberately trying to sabotage negotiations on new contracts for hospital doctors.

The Health Service Executive has placed visiting restrictions at Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown to contain the spread of the Winter Vomiting Bug.

The Health Service Executive says it is disappointed that Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin has decided not to be integrated into the planned new National Children's Hospital.

AS gardaí draft in extra numbers and the Court Service and the HSE put in place special arrangements, tax-fearing wealthy Travellers will be giving the annual Christmas pilgrimage to Rathkeale a skip.

A LIMERICK pizza deliveryman thought he was in big trouble early yesterday for getting a Moyross order wrong.

Families of patients who died at Leas Cross nursing home were lied to by the Health Service Executive about problems at the facility, a new victims’ group claimed today.

TWO main nurses’ unions are to hold a major rally in Dublin in protest of hours and pay, it emerged today.

The Health Service Executive has called on the Health Minister, Mary Harney, to force hospitals to refer public patients for private treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund.

Psychiatric nurses have served three weeks’ strike notice on the Health Service Executive as part of a dispute over compensation in the event of assault or injury.

DETAILS of the terms of reference and membership of an inquiry into the unexpected death of a 65-year-old woman at a North Cork nursing home have been published by the Health Service Executive (HSE).

The Health Service Executive has confirmed that the new National Children’s Hospital will be built on the site of Dublin’s Mater Hospital.

The Health Service Executive has confirmed the discovery of two recent cases of bacterial meningitis in young children in West Limerick.

The Health Service Executive is reportedly investigating claims that a two-year-old boy was tied to a chair at a crèche in the Blanchardstown area of Dublin.

The Health Service Executive is reportedly set to investigate a possible cluster of vCJD cases on the Dublin-Wicklow border.

An accounting error by the Health Service Executive means it will have €56.4 less to spend in 2006, the Dáil heard tonight.

The Government has shown a lack of commitment to tackling the country’s drugs crisis, a leading activist claimed today.

There are calls for an investigation into how a seventy-year-old man was allowed to die, having been refused urgent surgery at four separate hospitals.

The last patients are being moved from Leas Cross nursing home in North Dublin this weekend.

The Tánaiste and Minister for Health, Mary Harney, has announced plans to begin issuing new doctor-only medical cards from next month.

The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine how best to provide the most effective counselling service for victims of sexual assault.

The Health Service Executive says it has managed to make a significant reduction, in the number of A&E patients waiting on trolleys.