The HSE has shelved plans to introduce a new scheme to cover grants for mastectomy prosthetics and wigs for cancer patients.

The Dalata Hotel Group has defended its executive pay levels, which soared by nearly 73% last year.

Kerry 4-17, Meath 3-11: Kerry claimed their fifth consecutive All-Ireland M’B’HC title when overcoming a determined Meath side in Semple Stadium on Saturday.

Shares in leading Irish recruiter CPL Resources yesterday clawed back around half of the losses seen since June’s Brexit vote, on the back of the group posting record annual revenues.

The Higher Education Authority (HEA) currently has only 10 members instead of the 19 it should have by law, with two positions vacant for over a year.

A senior HSE primary care facilitator, involved in the first review of healthcare services on Irish islands, has said their ageing populations are a “particular challenge” that will have to be addressed.

The Dalata Hotel Group is to consider paying a maiden dividend to shareholders based on its 2017 earnings, management said yesterday.

A Co Limerick-based secondary school principal claims an investigation into complaints against him, including that he stared and winked at a co-worker, are part of an agenda to have him removed from his post.

Recruitment firm CPL Resources has expressed confidence in meeting market estimates for its new financial year, after noting increased business for the first quarter up to the end of September.

The continued lack of a government decision on third-level funding and ongoing cuts to public investment will have a detrimental effect on graduates and on the economy, the chairman of a state body has warned.

As it unveiled solid full-year results yesterday, recruitment firm CPL Resources announced it had acquired a 90% stake in a UK life sciences and pharmaceutical equivalent.

From today, over-70s can begin registering for the free GP service, which is to be available from August 5.

A school principal has launched a High Court challenge aimed at halting an investigation into a number of complaints against him, including that he stared, and winked at a co-worker.

Price deals with the pharmaceutical industry have saved the State more than €1.5bn since 2006, the Oireachtas Joint committee on Health and Children has been told.

Analysts have rowed back on full-year forecasts for CPL Resources, despite the recruitment firm issuing a relatively strong set of first-half figures yesterday.

As hospitals brace themselves for industrial action, the country’s largest nursing union has called on the public to join in a major protest outside the Dáil today to highlight emergency department (ED) overcrowding.

Hospitals must make a €150m saving next year despite getting increased funding, it emerged yesterday.

The HSE hopes to roll out free GP care for the under sixes by the second quarter of next year.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan says extra funding can only come at a price, writes Niall Murray

An increase in the number of companies hiring permanent staff helped to boost profits at CPL Resources by nearly 20% in its latest financial year.

Young men who avoid apprenticeships in construction trades but struggle with college courses could be a factor in rising third-level dropout rates.

A senior HSE director is insisting the executive did not ask for proof that a child still had Down Syndrome in the course of a medical card review.

Seriously ill children who have already lost their discretionary medical cards will die before the law is changed to help them, a leading charity has claimed.

Health Minister James Reilly is to review restrictions on the issuing of discretionary medical cards following warnings from Fine Gael backbenchers that the controversy was becoming unmanageable on the doorsteps.

Leading Irish recruitment firm CPL Resources is anticipating further profitable growth in the remainder of its current financial year after seeing double-digit percentage growth in first-half profits and revenue.

Representatives of the Irish Medical Organisation will today meet the minister responsible for primary care, Alex White, to discuss Government plans to introduce free GP care for children under the age of six.

Health chiefs have insisted they will be able to run services on less money this year without affecting patient care.

Students are getting extra supports and improved facilities, as universities pay the price for previous unauthorised top-ups of more than €7m to senior staff.

Parents of sick children who have lost their discretionary medical cards received a boost over the weekend after both the National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP) and the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) spoke of the hardship their members have seen since cards were withdrawn.

Health bosses are being asked to explain whether there is a deliberate policy to deny people their right to appeal decisions to withdraw or refuse discretionary medical cards.

The €113m savings sought through “medical card probity” announced in the budget is not a target but an estimate of what can be achieved, according to the HSE chief executive, Tony O’Brien.

If the room was filled with people who had lost their medical cards — the child with Down’s syndrome, the cancer patient or someone with motor neurone disease — they would not believe what they were hearing.

WHEN a patient asks for a second opinion and is given the exact opposite diagnosis than what was first provided, it’s fair to say they should be concerned.

Other areas within the health sector will be cut if significant savings cannot be made from the medical card review, the HSE has warned.

Recruitment specialist CPL Resources has reported an encouraging start to its current financial year, adding it expects to meet its first half financial targets.

The HSE has been accused of deceit over the medical card crisis, after a senior official finally admitted the criteria for how the discretionary cards are provided has been changed.

Increased demand in each of its divisions and geographical markets drove strong double-digit percentage growth — in both profits and revenues — at leading Irish recruitment group, CPL Resources, in its latest financial year.

Vital childhood developmental checks are slipping through the cracks as public health nurses struggle to cope with an increasing clinical case load, it has emerged.

An urgent intervention by Health Minister James Reilly is needed to prevent vulnerable people being put at a heightened suicide risk due to movement from their care home due to cuts, a senior TD has warned.

Employers are mostly satisfied with Irish graduates but more than a third are still recruiting overseas because of skills shortages.

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Bravery obviously runs in the Grundy family from Skerries, Dublin.