THE Government’s hospital co-location policy was slated at a public hearing yesterday by a former president of the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO).

A PRIVATE hospital on the grounds of Ireland’s largest publicly owned hospital campus is not sustainable, groups fighting the controversial project told a public hearing yesterday.

THE National Cancer Screening Service (NCSS) confirmed that it has signed an initial two-year contract with Quest Diagnostics in the US to provide laboratory testing services for the national cervical screening programme.

MORE than 500 medical scientists may lose their jobs within the next 18 months as part of controversial reforms by the Health Service Executive (HSE) of the country’s hospital laboratory system.

FOUR weeks is now the average length of time it takes to process cervical smear tests since the Health Service Executive (HSE) started using a laboratory in the United States to clear a backlog earlier this year.

MOST people do not believe that having private hospitals on the grounds of public hospitals will improve healthcare in Ireland, a new online poll shows.

FEARS that the outsourcing of cervical smear tests for analysis in the United States may have caused some abnormal tests to slip through the net were dismissed yesterday by the Health Service Executive (HSE).

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney has insisted the Government’s plan to co-locate eight private hospitals on the grounds of public hospitals is proceeding as planned.

LIKE the expectant mother who fails to meet her due-date, the country’s newest maternity hospital failed to deliver on time.

APPROXIMATELY 200 outpatient appointments at the country’s newest maternity hospital have had to be cancelled because the hospital failed to open on schedule at the weekend.

AN intensive campaign by the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) has been blamed for pushing the country’s cervical screening programme to a point where the Health Service Executive had to send tens of thousands of tests to the United States to be analysed.

PUBLIC patients will be able to use modern cancer-fighting machinery in a private hospital in Waterford early in the new year, the Health Service Executive (HSE) said yesterday.

AN inquiry into the €139 million commuter railway planned for Cork heard yesterday that it could carry up to four million passengers a year.

Blackburn are to report to the Premier League that they have fixed the undersoil heating system problem which led to the postponement of their match with Sunderland last week.

Newcastle, Blackburn and Bolton all earned the wrath of travelling fans last night after calling off matches at short notice.

NEWCASTLE, Blackburn and Bolton all earned the wrath of travelling fans last night after calling off matches at short notice.

LOUTH native Paul Dunne captured his first All Ireland Poc Fada title over the Cooley mountains yesterday.