ACCIDENT and Emergency departments across Ulster saw more than 3,000 attendances caused by accidents in the home last year, it’s been revealed.

Patient services may be affected as health cutbacks of at least €300m will have to be implemented this year to stay in budget.

The Health Service Executive is due to publish a series of reports today into the cancer misdiagnosis scandal at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise.

Four nursing home organisations have joined forces to form Nursing Homes Ireland.

Dublin City Council has passed a motion calling for the abolition of the Health Service Executive.

Ever since Ken Loach’s classic Cathy Come Home highlighted the plight of the homeless, the film director and the charity Shelter appeared to be a match made in heaven.

The organ retention support group, Parents for Justice, had to leave its national headquarters in Dublin yesterday after facing a funding crisis.

One of the country’s largest HIV/Aids support groups today said it was seriously concerned after a massive jump in the numbers contracting the disease.

Nearly four out of five Ulster people would want to be cared for at home if terminally ill, but the majority still die in hospital, new research said.

People working with the homeless have expressed concern after it emerged that no funding will be made available to establish new homeless services this year.