Full coverage: HSE

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.

The organisation has joined calls for a boycott of Teva, the Israeli pharma multinational, over Israel’s war on Gaza where more than 64,000 people have been killed.

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.

Dublin City Council previously issued demands for payment for 2018 to 2022, with the total amount in levy payments connected to the long vacant site running to just shy of €185,000.

Since presenting its budget this time last year, the Government has agreed to spend €1.5bn more on health in 2024 and another €2.7bn more next year. Based on internal documents, here is the detail of where the money is going.

Without the infrastructure to reimburse digital therapeutics companies in Ireland, start-ups in this space must go to market elsewhere.

Analysis of more than €1.6 billion of HSE spending shows just one recruitment firm received €478 million in less than four years and ten others shared over €1 billion – for an unknown number of staff.

Tasked with digitally transforming the HSE, Martin Curley has resigned. He blames a lack of "will and skill" in the HSE's management and constant blockages of innovation. He no longer believes it is possible to fix the system from the inside.

Sloane Helicopters was undercut on costs by more than a quarter when tendering for a medical helicopter service for the southwest. But the UK provider has brought a High Court challenge claiming its rival's bid is "abnormally low".

The former chief executive of the HSE is following a now well-trodden path from the public to the private sector. EY, which provided services to the state during the pandemic, said details about which clients or what projects he will be involved with are not yet confirmed.