Lean business consultancy Leading Edge has signed five contracts worth a combined $350,000 (€275,000) with clients in their Canadian territories.

THE minister for health has advised the HSE that the predicted contraction in activity in response to a reduction in resources is not an acceptable policy.

IT was announced recently that a further 6,000 HSE staff would be cut by 2014 and that the use of agency workers would stop.

IT was recently reported that the number of patients waiting on trollies in our nation’s A&E departments had reached a record high.