Cork families are having to travel to Dublin to access specialist dermatology care for their children, due to their being no consultant paediatric dermatologist employed in Cork and Kerry, a Cork TD has said. Speaking in the Dáil Fine Gael’s Colm Burke said the issues recently “came to a head when a consultant wrote to … Read more
The HSE has acknowledged hospital waiting list figures in Cork are “too long”, with new data showing almost 83,000 people waiting for care at the end of February. The figures, published by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF), show there were 82,937 people awaiting treatment at the end of last month, of which 73,173 were … Read more
Cork University Hospital is currently the most overcrowded hospital in Ireland with 57 people being treated on trollies, amid restrictions in place due to an outbreak of norovirus. The hospital is ahead of University Hospital Limerick, usually the most overcrowded, which has 47 patients on trolleys. There are a total of 78 people on trolleys … Read more
Cork University Hospital (CUH) is strictly enforcing visitor restrictions as an “unprecedented surge” in norovirus cases impacts several wards, and several strains of the virus are circulating at the hospital. According to the HSE South West branch, the highest level of visitor restrictions have now been implemented at the facility. A spokesperson said the hospital … Read more
“Every week we see young people with horrific injuries as a result of hazardous drinking. I’ve seen some horrible instances in the last year.” That is the warning from Dr Eoin Fogarty, who is at the frontline in dealing with young people being treated at Cork University Hospital after alcohol abuse. His comments come as … Read more
The Health Service Executive’s (HSE) South West will hold several free walk-in flu vaccination clinics for children in Cork this month. The HSE is encouraging uptake of the children’s nasal flu vaccine (LAIV), as it is a quick and painless procedure that is administered in both nostrils, and provides strong and effective protection against the … Read more
For several years, a bus organised by Kerry and Cork independent TDs has been heading to the North once or twice a month, bringing patients from those counties to get cataract and hip operations in Belfast or Derry, procedures which are paid for — or least partly paid for — out of a cross-border healthcare … Read more
One in four pregnancies will end in a first-trimester miscarriage, which is the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy. Since 2023 in Ireland, recurrent miscarriage is defined as two consecutive pregnancy losses in a row. It affects between 1% and 5% of the population. These stark figures illustrate how common miscarriages are. But despite the … Read more
A Cork cardiologist has issued a plea to women this Mother’s Day, saying the best present a mum can give herself is “the gift of health”. Dr John Foran, who leads the cardiac care team at the Mater Private Hospital, is urging women over 50 years old to prioritise their heart health, as cardiovascular disease … Read more
Improved infrastructure, quicker access to novel drugs, and a better uptake of screening are the main things Ireland could improve on in order to achieve better cancer outcomes, a Cork oncologist has said. It comes as the European Commission’s country cancer profile 2025 report, which compares Ireland’s performance in several areas to other EU countries, … Read more