Health

Minister Harris needs to dispense with his spin doctors and make it more attractive for those of the medical variety to work here if he is to have any hope of resolving the very real problems at the coalface of healthcare.

A Social Democrat candidate in next month's local elections is calling for a broader range of healthcare facilities to be available in rural towns and has cited Macroom as an ideal town for such a facility.

BIM's recently-launched fishermen's health manual has been translated into five languages due to demand among Ireland's multicultural fishing industry workforce.

A CORK employee of Ireland's mental health regulator is encouraging people from across the county to attend a special open  event in The Metropole Hotel in Cork city tomorrow.

A West Cork farmer who helped start the conversation about mental health in the agricultural community is working hard to keep it in the spotlight in 2019. 

One hopes that all the gloomy predictions that have been made in recent weeks about the ability of our health service to cope this winter don't come to pass.

The mental health reform study, published in July 2017, found that two-thirds of mental health patients did not know how to make a complaint and many were not confident enough to advocate for themselves, Fianna Fáil Deputy Margare

Cork South West will be a national leader in the provision of care for the elderly, Minister Jim Daly pledged at the opening of a special care unit in Bandon on Friday