Marymount Hospice runs a programme on the fundamental aspects of loss, grief, and bereavement that is open to everybody, including the public, writes Colette Sheridan

Babies, brides, and pets — not the usual cast of characters for a hospice, but Marymount is not your usual hospice.

A senior HSE social worker revealed in 2011 that Bessborough Mother and Baby Home files contained information on the “quasi-illegal deportation and adoption” of children to the USA, Britain, and Australia.

There should be more child protection public health nurses, according to the findings of a study which highlighted the vital role they play in spotting and dealing with neglect cases.

Families of children with autism in the Midlands have claimed that services have deteriorated to crisis levels, with more people seeking help in securing basic assessments.

If there was one over-riding message that HSE honchos wanted media to take from a tour of the new acute psychiatric unit at Cork University Hospital on January 20, it was that all was well.

Emergency beds are being “under-utilised” at some of Cork’s mental health units and community services must be modernised, according to the HSE.

Thousands of children have been waiting for up to two years for speech and language therapy in the South of the country, figures from the HSE have shown.

TO most of the people who live there, it’s not a hospital — it’s home.

THE junior health minister with responsibility for mental health has announced plans to shut down a mental health facility which has been closed for the past five years.