The hospital in Cork which had to evacuate its lower floors when the River Lee burst its banks is re-opening its emergency department.

THE Mercy University Hospital (MUH) in Cork has reduced its outpatient waiting list by more than 8,000 following a series of initiatives, including contacting patients to check if they still required treatment.

MERGER plans involving two of the country’s biggest voluntary hospitals have been temporarily shelved.

NONE of the 10 hospitals in the south and south-east is delivering acute care in line with international standards, according to a leaked report.

INDUSTRIAL action is thought to be on the cards following what was described as a very angry meeting of nursing staff in the Mercy University Hospital in Cork where management are cutting premium payments to staff in a bid to save money.

ONE of the country’s largest voluntary hospitals is slashing staff allowances and asking workers to take unpaid leave as part of a raft of cost-cutting measures designed to save more than €4 million this year.

THE cost to the health service of elderly people in Co Cork suffering injuries from falls, is estimated at €45 million a year.

A HOSPITAL emergency department which has lain idle for almost two years will finally open in four weeks.

FINE GAEL’S health spokesman is baffled at what he described as a snub by one Cork’s biggest hospitals.

Staff at Munster’s largest acute hospital were struggling to find beds for more than 30 patients lying on trolleys yesterday, according to the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO).

HEALTH service managers will be asked to attend a public meeting next week and defend cutbacks that have forced a €5 million mothballed A&E to open part-time only.

CORK’s Mercy Hospital is still planning to open its mothballed A&E unit on a part-time basis despite progress in crunch talks on staffing yesterday.

A state of the art Accident and Emergency Department in Cork will only be able to operate on a part-time basis, it emerged this afternoon

A 31-BED ward at the Mercy University Hospital (MUH) in Cork is to close until the end of the year as the hospital struggles to claw back €4.6 million of a €7.2m accumulated deficit.

THE management at one of Cork’s biggest hospitals was yesterday urged to clarify the future of a crucial Warfarin clinic.

AN INQUIRY is being called for into why the new A&E unit at Mercy University Hospital Cork will not open until next March, despite having been completed 14 months ago.

MANAGERS at Cork’s Mercy Hospital yesterday denied claims its busy warfarin clinic was to close next week.

TWENTY years ago, pensioners on the northside of Cork city offered to contribute 50p a week towards the upkeep of the North Infirmary Hospital in an effort to keep it open.

ONE of the country’s busiest cancer units is to plead for the chance to stay open despite not being named as one of the eight big cancer centres where all patients must be treated within two years.

A NEW accident and emergency unit is due to open at Cork’s Mercy University Hospital (MUH) in September.

FEARS were growing last night that junior hospital doctors may take strike action across the country over changed working arrangements which must be introduced this month under an EU directive.