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Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) and the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) have voted in favour of accepting the Public Service Stability Agreement 2018 – 2020. IMO members voted to accept the agreement with a majority of 85 per cent. Dr Ann...

The number of people who are suffering from global hunger is increasing; 815 million people were affected in 2016 which is 38 million more people than the previous year, according to a new edition of the annual United Nations report on world food security and...

Two in five hospitals are now providing free car parking to cancer patients and over than one in five hospitals are offering reduced parking rates to patients who are undergoing treatment, according to an Irish Cancer Society survey on the 26 public hospitals that...

A new national study has revealed that 42 per cent of parents in Ireland wrongly believe that their child gets enough physical activity during their school day. With 90 per cent of secondary schools providing less than two hours of weekly physical education per...

Dr Brendan O’Shea, Director, Post-Graduate Resource Centre, ICGP, has commented that well-resourced general practices could be key in reducing Emergency Department overcrowding, following the ICGP’s pre-Budget Submission for Budget 2018. He also claimed that this...

The Rotunda Hospital has launched an innovation hub to faciltate the development of innovative ideas that can improve patient care and hospital processes. The Rotunda Innovation Hub will function as a multi-disciplinary virtual department within the hospital...

Minister Finian McGrath has made assurances that he is fully behind the new HPV vaccination campaign following a report in the Sunday Times that highlighted concerns he had previously raised over the vaccine, Gardasil. During his time in Opposition last year, Mr...

An Irish medtech company, Innovation Zed, today announced that it has commenced working with the NHS in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, England. This collaboration will involve the use of the company’s novel insulin pen accessory on diabetes patients, as part of a...

The documented number of sepsis associated hospital deaths has fallen by 30 per cent over the past five years, which is a 20 per cent decrease in mortality since the NCEC National Clinical Guideline on sepsis was published in 2014. The HSE confirmed the decline of the...

A national campaign to improve blood cancer awareness has been launched in response to new research that shows almost two thirds (60 per cent) of the Irish public mistake multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells in the bone marrow, for a form of skin cancer, and...

Hospital overcrowding has remained on a record level throughout August, with an increase of 27 per cent this year admitted on trolleys (7,781) compared to August 2016 (6,136). The latest trolley/ward watch figures, from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation...

Plans to kick-start a new study to tackle osteoarthritis in Ireland are underway, and a Cork-based clinical trials company, Atlantia, is calling on osteoarthritis sufferers to take part. Barry Skillington, Director at Atlantia Food Clinical Trials, commented on the...