Tag Archives: Portlaoise

HIQA has developed its first set of service-specific national standards for Safer Better Maternity Services, which aim to standardise care across the country.

The Chief Executive of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group has said she is now satisfied that maternity services at Portlaoise are safe.

Dara Gantly on the legal threat narrowly averted over HIQA’s damning Portlaoise report.

Dr David Booth was successful following interview and will fill the vacancy arising from the incumbent GP, Dr Donagh Hickey’s, retirement in Portlaoise.

By Gary Culliton.

Returning from 18 weeks parental leave, Dara Gantly finds that not much has changed in the world of Irish medicine, apart from the prospect of the most radical shake-up of general practice in a quarter of a century.

HIQA has identified a ‘watchlist’ of 10 hospitals where it says there are ‘significant risk issues relating to service provision’.