Over 34 per cent of patients waiting on trolleys on Monday were being treated in the west.

This is a drop from the 11,527 children at the end of May.

The back-of-house testing can be carried out on drugs connected with a person brought to a medical tent and on drugs placed in "surrender bins".

When Catherine was first diagnosed she spent time in a high dependency bed at Cork University Hospital (CUH) before being flown to a rehabilitative facility in Putney in the UK for treatment.

In a document seen by Breakingnews.ie, 16,593 children are waiting for AON completion after quarter two of 2025.

In a dicument seen by Breakingnews, the HSE has said waiting time for an initial assessment varies from one week to 26 weeks.

The High Court appointed a guardian ad litem to represent the best interests of the farmer, aged in his 40s

They had sued the HSE over the care they received at South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

Mr Justice Paul Coffey was told on Friday that Fiona Sherry, Simon Sherry’s widow, had settled her case against the HSE over his death for a “substantial” sum.

The HSE annual report said that Ireland’s population is ‘ageing faster than any other EU country’.

Daniel O’Leary was a resident at Kanturk Community Hospital in Co Cork.

A woman whose child was on a Child Disability Network Team (CDNT) waiting list for years has criticised the process she and her child have been put through

This is a drop from the 12,106 children waiting for their first contact at the end of April.

Funding from The Children’s Disability Service Grant has yet to be released to groups in Donegal.

The settlement of Sean Munnelly’s case against the HSE came after several days of hearing in the High Court.

The HSE has confirmed that a child has been on a waiting list for psychological care for 13.5 years.

A teenage disability campaigner has said it is a myth that there is a shortage of therapists to carry out assessments of need (AONs)

A child has been on a waiting list for psychological care for 13.5 years, according to new figures.

New HSE research on alcohol shows that only four in 10 people are aware of the link between alcohol and cancer

Documents seen by Breakingnews.ie show there are 15,296 children waiting for AON completion at the end of Q1 for 2025.

The girl, who is now a teenager, settled a High Court action against the HSE for €120,000 over her treatment at University Hospital Waterford for a congenital squint in one of her eyes.

Figures released by the Health Service Executive (HSE) suggest that people are opting out of the scheme at a rate of almost 155 every hour since the law came into force on June 17th

Consultant of Sexual Health and HIV Care at St James’s Hospital in Dublin, Dr Aisling Loy, told The Pat Kenny show on Newstalk that “stigma and shame” around sexually transmitted diseases are very much still hindering her work.

Bernard Gloster acknowledged a “significant challenge” in tackling the crisis, with more than 15,000 children with serious disabilities waiting to access their legal right to assessments.

Professor Barry conducted a review of the practice of such payments, which found they were widespread.

Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said the findings will ‘help us plan better’.

The mother of the baby, who was 16-weeks-old when he died, has settled a High Court action against the HSE over his death.

Last year, 11,357 patients were prescribed drugs for ADHD on the medical card, while 12,105 patients who were medicated for the disorder received reimbursements under the Drugs Payment Scheme (DPS).

It was claimed had any of the five smear tests been correctly reported, there would have been a different approach to the woman's care and she would have been advised to undergo a hysterectomy.

The project was one of 12 innovative solutions to healthcare challenges recognised at the summit

However, he said it’s only a small piece of the move to a properly functioning seven-day health service

The audit was designed to check that planned surgery was clearly documented and consent was obtained and recorded for each procedure.

The latest annual report of the country’s six sexual assault treatment units (SATUs) shows the proportion of cases where someone has been sexually assaulted by two or more individuals increased to 10 per cent in 2024 from nine per cent in 2023 and seven per cent in 2022.

Last April, a jury found Deirdre Arnold was not an "innocent abroad" and had "decided at every turn" to assist her then-partner McHugh, whom she knew to have murdered mother-of-two Ms Thompson.

Mother of five and grandmother to 13, Katherine Heneghan was  71 years of age when she died as a result of a blood clot on September 10th 2020.

The programme exposed serious care failures at two nursing homes run by Emeis Ireland, including staff misconduct and abuse allegations.

The HSE welcomed the Human Tissue Act 2024 Part 2, saying it provides a national legislative framework for organ donation and transplant services in Ireland for the first time.

From Tuesday, it will be assumed that a person wants to donate their organs when they die unless they have objected to the process while they were still alive.

Despite the new legislation, family members will always be consulted before any action is taken and if they do not agree, then the donation will not proceed.

Former HSE chief Paul Reid is set to lead a new planning authority which seeks to replace An Bord Pleanála

The National Treatment Purchase Fund said it had suspended all insourcing work at the public hospital since April 11th.

The red-bricked building known formally as the Royal City of Dublin Hospital, has been closed as a hospital since 1987

Of that figure, 8298 children are waiting over a year for first contact.