Siptu has called for an upcoming Hiqa probe into ambulance response times to include a review of the resourcing provided to the service.

FEARS that the State’s new watchdog on health and social services will ration expensive drugs were raised yesterday by cancer specialist Professor John Crown.

MENTAL health patient and carer groups intend to express their anger at the Government’s slow progress in reforming mental health services at the polls.

ON behalf of the Irish Health Services Management Institute (the professional body for healthcare managers in Ireland), I wish to commend the Minister of Health and Children, Micheál Martin, on his initiative on the prohibition of smoking in the workplace.

THE Government has approved the publication of the Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003 which contains tough provisions to combat drunkenness and disorderly conduct and abolishes late opening on Thursdays.