Research

A Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI) survey has confirmed approximately 70% of the country’s 440 private and voluntary nursing homes have capacity to facilitate discharges from hospitals

Age NI chief executive Linda Robinson told BBC Radio Ulster that placing discharged patients in hotels would free up much-needed hospital beds

Brexit is having a significant negative effect on health and social care and is making existing challenges in the sector even worse according to new research by the Nuffield Trust

This week, the OECD published the Economic Survey of Ireland 2022 which included, for the first time ever, a chapter on health sector performance and efficiency.

HIQA last week published its 'Overview report on the monitoring and regulation of older persons services in 2020 and 2021'

Cost-of-living crisis is causing unsustainable financial troubles for many unpaid carers and the UK Government is not doing enough to help, said one charity

Research has shown significantly worse average health and life expectancies among the country's Traveller community

Many of his patients were older, dealing with conditions like Parkinson's, stroke and multiple sclerosis while the report investigates the deaths of 44 persons who were under his care

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre said that 731 cases of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) were reported to it last week

To mark this year’s World Quality Day, RQIA has published its ninth Annual Quality Report highlighting progress.