Significant deficiencies have emerged in a national audit in services for children with Type 1 diabetes.

We write to you as a group of hospital consultants working in close collaboration across the Mater, Temple St, and Rotunda Hospitals, on the pressing national issue regarding where to locate the long and urgently awaited new Children’s Hospital.

Hospitals are paying agencies €100 an hour for locums to plug the gaps in emergency departments (EDs) when the shortfall could be substantially addressed by creating a new grade of staff doctor.

A TEENAGER complained of being visited by “a plague of professionals” at her home since disclosing she had been sexually abused, a conference heard yesterday.