Cork University Hospital (CUH) now has the “cleanest hospital rooms that exist in healthcare worldwide” within its new cystic fibrosis (CF) ward, effectively removing the threat of cross infection to patients.

A 20-bed adult respiratory ward at Cork University Hospital (CUH) containing isolation facilities vital to the health of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, is finally set to open next weekend, several months behind schedule.

The standard one-year warranty on 10 PlayStations bought for the entertainment of children hospitalised with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is in danger of expiring before the ward for which they were purchased even opens.

More than a month into a high-profile campaign to attract 500 nurses back to Ireland, just 10 had joined the health service.

A charity that raised €2.3m to build a ward designed to make hospital stays less life-threatening for cystic fibrosis patients has been told it is unlikely to open before October, eight months behind schedule.

Mary Harney’s legacy of her years as an effective politician and minister will forever be tarnished by her years as the Minister of Health and the driver of the HSE.

The HSE’s national recruitment service has been asked to prioritise staffing a new €2.3m respiratory ward, funded by a charity, that remains closed at Cork University Hospital (CUH) due to nurse shortages.

Junior Health Minister Kathleen Lynch said she was “disappointed” with the delayed opening of a new €2.3m respiratory ward at Cork University Hospital funded by charity but said the hospital was struggling to fill 40 nursing posts.

A vital cystic fibrosis (CF) respiratory ward at Cork University Hospital, funded to the tune of €2.3m by a charity, has not opened because of staffing shortages.

Catherine Shanahan examines the hurdles charity Build4Life has faced in ring-fencing beds for CF patients at Cork University Hospital

Another week, another HSE scandal. This week opens with the disclosure that a new respiratory ward specifically to help cystic fibrosis patients at Cork University Hospital, one funded by a charity to the tune of €2.3m, stands idle because the health service does not have the staff to man it.

The HSE has been instructed to redraw plans relating to specialist treatment rooms for children with cystic fibrosis (CF) at Cork University Hospital (CUH) after Health Minister Leo Varadkar intervened at the behest of a CF charity.

Residents have described the €12,000 fine imposed on a waste firm for multiple breaches of the waste licence at its Cork City depot as nothing more than a slap on the wrist.

A cystic fibrosis (CF) charity that has single-handedly funded the overhaul of facilities for CF patients in a public hospital at a cost of almost €3m has called on the Government to waive a €400,000 tax bill. 

Work is due to get underway on the construction of a long-awaited 20-bed inpatient respiratory ward at Cork University Hospital, funded by Munster-based cystic fibrosis (CF) charity Build4Life.

A Munster-based charity which has raised €3.6m towards improving outcomes for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients at Cork University Hospital (CUH) has been honoured for its efforts.

A decade on, vintners now figure strongly among the more avid supporters of the smoking ban, as Catherine Shanahan discovers

A row between Cork University Hospital and Cystic Fibrosis charity Build4Life over the ring-fencing of beds threatened the building of a new €2.3m ward. Build4Life founder Joe Browne is happy to draw a line under the saga as agreement is finally reached

A row over the ring-fencing of beds for cystic fibrosis patients at a Cork hospital has been resolved, paving the way for the handover of €2.3m to fund a respiratory ward.

A compromise has been reached in a row between a cystic fibrosis (CF) charity and a Cork hospital that will pave the way for the development of a new €2.3m respiratory ward.

Junior Health Minister Kathleen Lynch has said she is hopeful of a breakthrough in the protracted dispute between a Cork hospital and a cystic fibrosis charity that has stalled the development of a €2.3m ward for patients with respiratory illness.

One of the country’s leading campaigners for improved cystic fibrosis services has urged a charity that raised funds for a Cork hospital not to hand over the money until beds are ringfenced for CF patients.

The head of a cystic fibrosis charity has called for the appointment of an independent expert to help resolve a row over bed designation for CF patients at a Cork hospital.

Most kids bat off minor bugs fairly effortlessly but not Fíonn Flannery O’Riordan.

The stand-off between a cystic fibrosis charity and a Cork hospital over the ringfencing of beds means work is yet to begin on building a ward which should be complete by now.

Yet again we are dismayed at what appears to be another broken promise by the HSE via the Minister for Health, James Reilly and the management at Cork University Hospital.

My son, Rian, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when he was 10 months old. He is now three and doing quite well. My knowledge of this illness was minimal, but my family and I have had to learn.

We are writing to express our utter disappointment and heartbreak at the developing crisis regarding cystic fibrosis beds in CUH.

To find out at three-weeks old that your perfect newborn child has cystic fibrosis is devastating.

The minister for health has been asked to intervene in an ongoing row over bed allocation for cystic fibrosis patients at Cork University Hospital.

IPads purchased by a charity over two years ago for cystic fibrosis patients at Cork University Hospital have never been used because the hospital is still assessing how to clean them.

A charity that raised millions for a new ward at Cork University Hospital (CUH) has refused to hand over the money after management reneged on a commitment to ringfence beds for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients.

Build4Life raised millions with the aim of opening an adult in-patient ward at CUH for CF patients. Legal issues and disagreements have left it in limbo, reports Catherine Shanahan.

A charity dedicated to the needs of cystic fibrosis patients that raised millions for a new ward at Cork University Hospital has withdrawn its support after HSE management refused to honour an agreement that beds would be set aside for CF patients.

A mother who went into politics in a bid to improve the life of her young child got the news she desperately wanted yesterday — that a cystic fibrosis wonder drug will be available to patients in Ireland from next month.

THE Government sanctioned lottery funding yesterday clearing the way for the development of a dedicated €3 million ward at Cork University Hospital (CUH) for adults with Cystic Fibrosis (CF).

THE Department of Health is considering a U-turn on a decision to refuse €300,000 to a cystic fibrosis (CF) charity which has raised €2 million to transform a closed Cork University Hospital (CUH) ward into an isolation unit for CF patients.

THE vacated 5B Ward in Cork University Hospital has been identified as the location for the in-patient beds for adults with cystic fibrosis.

IT’S a story familiar to our health system: a reliance on the goodwill of others to help provide an essential service. In this case, a new unit for adults with cystic fibrosis.

THE recent and very positive statements by the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health around the provision of facilities for people with cystic fibrosis (PWCF) and organ transplantation are enthusiastically welcomed by Build4Life/Cystic Fibrosis.