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Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Dr James Reilly today (29 January 2016) welcomed the appointment of Fred McBride as the new Chief Executiveof Tusla. The Minister said...

Minister for Mental Health, Social Care and Primary Care Kathleen Lynch has today announced that an additional €2m will be allocated to the HSE budget this year to address the health needs of homeless persons in the Dublin region, who manifest chronic mental ill health...

Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has launched Ireland’s first National Maternity Strategy - Creating a Better Future Together - which is a roadmap for the improvement of services over the next ten years...

Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has written to the HSE asking it to review employment practices and procedures for staff who move between different hospitals and facilities...

Kathleen Lynch T.D., Minister for Social Care (Older People and Disabilities), Primary Care and Mental Health today announced one of the most comprehensive programmes of investment in public nursing home facilities in the history of the State...

Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has asked people at particular risk, such as older people, pregnant women or people with chronic diseases, and also health workers to get the influenza vaccine...

Last November, I published a Patient Safety Package at the second Annual Patient Safety Conference. It had already been approved by Government and was broadly welcomed at the time by patient advocacy groups. There has been no change of policy since then of any sort whatsoever...

I am pleased that the WRC's revised proposals have been accepted by the INMO National Executive and I understand it will now be recommending them for acceptance in a ballot of Emergency Department nurses.

Kathleen Lynch, Minister for Mental Health, Social Care and Primary Care today announced a significant new mental health service for Limerick...

'The total number of transplants carried out in Ireland in 2015 was 266, an increase of 15 on 2014. This includes overall increases in kidney (deceased and living donor combined)...