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'A great privilege' - Dr Tony Holohan steps down as CMO to accept Trinity job

Ireland's Chief Medical Officer has stepped down from the role in favour of a professorship at Trinity College Dublin. The news was announced today (Friday March 25) in a statement confirming Dr Tony Holohan has accepted a job as a Professor of ...

25 Mar 2022 at 23:33

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Over 65s and immunocompromised should get 2nd booster 'as soon as possible' - Donnelly

A second booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine is being recommended for immunocompromised people and those aged 65 years of age and older. The recommendation was made last night (Tuesday April 5) by the National Immunisation Advisory Committee ...

06 Apr 2022 at 11:33

National News

Over 65s and immunocompromised should get 2nd booster 'as soon as possible' - Donnelly

06 Apr 2022 at 23:33

Ireland

Four households meeting up ‘simply not safe’ says medical chief

People meeting up in large numbers from four households is “simply not safe”, the chief medical officer has said. Dr Tony Holohan delivered the warning as Ireland deals with record numbers of Covid cases caused by the new Omicron ...

31 Dec 2021 at 11:25

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National review must recognise need for specialist cardiac services at LUH says Donegal TD

The national review of specialist cardiac services must recognise the need for those services at Letterkenny University Hospital, an independent Donegal TD has claimed. Addressing the Dáil earlier this week Deputy Thomas Pringle ...

08 Jul 2022 at 09:33

Local News

Abolishing public in-patient charges for children will 'ease financial burden' - Donnelly

A Bill to abolish public in-patient charges for children has received government approval. The Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, received approval of the General Scheme of the Health (Exemption for Children from Public ...

09 Jun 2022 at 19:33

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Plea from Leitrim nurse suffering from Long Covid

“I got this illness because of work, and I feel like the HSE, and the government are leaving me to rot, it's soul- destroying and an awful way to treat the very ones who had no choice but to go to work with no vaccine and ...

14 Nov 2022 at 17:33

Scotland

Rise in number of residential rehabilitation places approved in Scotland

The number of places approved for alcohol and drug residential rehabilitation treatment has increased from last year. There were 218 placements approved between April and June this year, compared to 78 during the same ...

27 Sept 2022 at 13:32

Local News

'Action must be taken now' - INMO calls for winter plan to protect patients and health staff

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) is calling for a winter plan to protect patients and healthcare staff to be published "immediately". Today's (September 17) call comes on World Patient Safety Day, an ...

17 Sept 2022 at 21:33

SNP leadership hopeful Humza Yousaf comes under fire over NHS record

SNP leadership candidate and would-be Scottish first minister Humza Yousaf has come under fire for his stewardship of the NHS – with Scottish Tories revealing “shocking” new figures showing one patient waited two ...

23 Feb 2023 at 17:01

National News

250 organ transplants carried out in Ireland in 2022

Some 250 organ transplants took place in Ireland in 2022. The figure includes kidney transplants from 33 living donors. Across the three national transplant centres, 163 kidney, 10 heart, 18 lung, 51 liver and 8 ...

29 Dec 2022 at 15:33

Too many patients waiting too long for NHS care, Sturgeon tells MSPs

Scotland

Too many patients waiting too long for NHS care, Nicola Sturgeon tells MSPs

Too many patients are having to wait too long for care in the NHS, Nicola Sturgeon conceded, as she was told how an 80-year-old man waited more than 12 hours for an ambulance after breaking his neck on Hogmanay....

12 Jan 2023 at 14:37

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