Talks between the HSE and the IMO on meeting the 48-hour week for NCHDs failed to reach agreement at the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) last Friday and the matter was referred to the Labour Court for further negotiations.

An Ulster nursing expert has been honoured by a prestigious American academy.

The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children has written to the CEO of the Health Service Executive (HSE), Prof Brendan Drumm and requested that he attend a meeting of the committee as soon as possible in order to discuss the current situation at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin.

The number of delayed discharges from hospitals continues to climb, averaging 757 per week in the first three months of the year, latest HSE figures reveal.

EU governments can legally reduce medicinal product prices more than once a year and on the basis of predicted expenditure, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.

PATIENT Focus has called on the Medical Council to explain how its rules ensure doctors who were struck off in another country could not be registered in Ireland.

The final report from the Commission of Investigation established to investigate the management, operation and supervision of the former Leas Cross Nursing Home will not be completed until mid-June.

The HSE has published its Review of Adequacy of Services for Children and Families 2007.

The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has published new standards to combat the spread of Healthcare Associated Infections.

Niamh Mullen examines doctors’ concerns that the Medical Council was infringing their privacy by publishing their home addresses online.