The report documenting avoidable deaths of children in the care of the Department of Health/HSE over the last decade brings shame on us all and must bring renewed focus on the proposed new National Paediatric Hospital (NPH).

Plans for the new dedicated children’s hospital in Dublin have been refused, it has been confirmed.

A NEW national children’s hospital to be built on the site of the existing Mater Hospital in Dublin will provide “a world-class medical facility”, a public inquiry heard yesterday.

An Bord Pleanála has heard that the planned new children's hospital at the site of the existing Mater Hospital in Dublin will provide a "world class medical facility".

A public oral hearing into the proposed children's hospital at the Mater Hospital in Dublin has opened.

The pain of more fees and the dole queue is not what young people expected from the money the Government had in the ‘boom’, writes Róisín Healy

SIX professors of paediatrics opposed to the selection of the Mater Hospital as the site for a new national children’s hospital have publicly challenged the right of their representative body to say it endorses the project.

THERE is a fundamental contradiction between what the Taoiseach said at Bodenstown (October 17) about “not stifling debate” and his kneejerk approval of Health Minister Mary Harney’s ‘una duce, una voce’, bully-girl policy on the proposed National Children’s Hospital.

THE head of the controversial National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, Philip Lynch, has resigned his position.

THE former head of Crumlin Hospital’s emergency department will contest the election opposing the Taoiseach’s preference to centralise paediatric care at the Mater Hospital.

THE Government must work to increase the number of medicine places available to school leavers, a campaign group has urged.

THE growing number of female doctors is causing a staffing crisis as they are avoiding jobs that involve weekend work and long hours, claim consultants.

Catherine Shanahan

The first round of offers from the Central Applications Office (CAO) showed students will need a minimum of 570 points to secure a place in medical schools.

PLANS to more than double the number of Irish students who can gain entry to medical school may do little or nothing to ease pressure on school leavers hoping to study medicine, a campaign group said yesterday.

THE number of places for Irish medical students is set to be considerably increased, Education Minister Noel Dempsey indicated last night.

DANIEL SMYTH is still a little bit annoyed as he prepares to leave for Poland on a four-year stint at a medical school.