Full coverage: healthcare

Employers are clamoring for workers who can do doctor-like work but who are trained faster and can cost them less, writes Te-Ping Chen, The Wall Street Journal.

The move by the health insurance group to offload its Republic of Ireland dental practices follows a strategic review. A sales process remains at an early stage.

A bank deal completed before Christmas sees private investors exit after 15 years and has positive implications for the proposed new national maternity hospital.

Long before antibiotics or mass vaccination, better homes saved lives. New evidence from Ireland’s labourers’ cottages shows how improving light, air, and space quietly reshaped public health – and why housing quality still matters far beyond shelter.

Brightpath Healthcare, a Broadlake portfolio company, has acquired London-based Children’s Complex Care (CCC). Brightpath will employ 700 people following the deal.

The Charter Medical Group hopes to employ 500 people in its hospital in Mullingar in two years' time. Its chairman Tom Byrne talks about the future of the fast-growing healthcare group.

Led by Mick O'Driscoll, Ethos Care is a new nursing home group that hopes to manage over 1,000 beds in Ireland. It is in talks to buy a 12-strong nursing home group.

Dedalus managing director Daryll Goodall speaks to The Currency about the HSE's digitisation drive, his company's acquisition of Irish business Swiftqueue, and the need for electronic health records.

The digital health provider has agreed to fund four places in a Trinity College doctoral programme. Spectrum's Emelina Ellis and Trinity's Ladislav Timulak explain why they hope more will follow suit.

The Dublin firm, which employs over 1,000 people, has appointed a London-based investment bank to manage a potential sale.