A new study shows that patients with dementia benefit from living in a customised environment rather than in a traditional hospital ward.

ATTACKS on health service employees look set to reach record levels after the latest statistics on assaults on staff were revealed yesterday.

Paying off top officials as part of an overhaul of the health service will push the reform cost to £70million, an Assembly member has claimed.

More health service cutbacks are likely this year following the news that the HSE is receiving less money from the Government than it needs to sustain existing services.

Attacks on emergency service crews continue to soar with police clearing more than 2,000 cases within just 12 months, it has emerged.

Tens of thousands of nurses may cripple the health service through mass resignations unless they are given a pay rise, it emerged today.

An 83-year-old woman deemed medically fit for discharge back in July of this year has been stuck in a leading Dublin hospital ever since because the Health Service Executive won’t pay for a nursing home for her.

Traumatised lay staff working at the Galway special school which was the subject of a damning inquiry into more than 30 years of sexual and physical abuse have been offered counselling.

The activities of charities in Northern Ireland are to come under the scrutiny of a commissioner. Legislation aimed at creating the post of charity commissioner will be introduced to the assembly on Monday.

One of Ireland’s richest men has paid tribute to the thousands of carers and people who give up their time for others.