Planned legislation on the make-up of the new Health Service Executive Board will be changed to include members with a medical background.
It has begun outlining details of expected disruption to services during the first of six 24-hour nationwide work stoppages by more than 35,000 nurses.
A support service provider is “confused and disappointed” after its arrangement with a Cork-based organisation for people with autism was pulled by the HSE — a decision that has left members concerned.
The board will operate on an administrative basis only until legislation officially creating it is passed.
The Health Minister and HSE are being urged to intervene to avert an ambulance strike scheduled for Tuesday.
A number of websites claiming to provide unplanned pregnancy support services are mimicking the HSE’s My Options service, it has emerged.
The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) says it is a "national disgrace" that 7,000 operations were cancelled this year because of hospital overcrowding.
The Health Minister is warning of an "extremely busy" January for the health service.
The HSE has been accused of being "imprudent" in unilaterally cutting the number of people whose nursing home care will be funded under the Fair Deal scheme next year.
The HSE Service Plan for 2019 has been labelled a "disgrace" by the National Association of General Practitioners.
A health economist has warned that the HSE has “very little wriggle room” in its budget for next year and if additional money is required services might have to be cut.
The chief executive of University Hospital Limerick, Professor Colette Cowan has admitted that the €25 million emergency department opened just 18 months ago is not able to cope with the numbers coming through its doors.
The HSE's €30m winter plan will only provide “a temporary relief” for some patients, the Irish Medical Organisation claims.
Tackling overcrowding and supporting older people are some of the main targets of the HSE’s winter plan.
The Irish Patients Association says it’s important that hospital staff get the right balance between being over familiar and clinical.
Innovative measures will be taken to reduce pressure on emergency departments over Christmas and the New Year.
An expert group examining the scale and causes of delayed discharges from hospital has been unable to produce any meaningful recommendations to tackle the problem this winter because of the poor quality of data available to it.
Just one in five health and social care workers has been formally briefed on the HSE’s open disclosure policy, and only one in 25 has attended a training workshop — five years after patients were assured the policy would be standard practice.
The HSE has only implemented 10 out of 36 Ombudsman recommendations three years after an investigation into the health service.
The HSE is not expected to ban doctors and nurses from taking time off over Christmas when it finalises its winter plan today.