Fergal Bowers

Health Correspondent

Bernard Gloster said the HSE is not waiting for the audit to make improvements across CHI sites (stock photo)

Two reports into children's surgeries expected soon

Two independent reports into children's surgeries are expected to be completed soon, it has been confirmed

Health • 27 Apr 25

The annual general meeting of the Irish Medical Organisation is being held in Killarney, Co Kerry

Health system not set up for weekend rostering - IMO told

Doctors are attending the annual general meeting of the Irish Medical Organisation in Killarney, Co Kerry, to discuss staffing, bed capacity and health funding.

Health • 26 Apr 25

The HSE said that the percentage of serious incidents with an outcome of death reported represents 0.6% of incidents and 'is not outside the international norm'

Over 109,000 adverse incidents reported in HSE last year

There were over 109,300 adverse incidents reported in the HSE last year with 497 listed as extreme, and 158 as major, according to new figures.

Health • 16 Apr 25

The Scoliosis Advocacy Network and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Paediatric Advocacy Group held a joint-press conference

Call for inquiry into spina bifida, scoliosis care at CHI

Campaign groups representing families of children who have undergone surgery and those on waiting lists have called for a full public inquiry into spina bifida and scoliosis care in Children's Health Ireland.

Health • 15 Apr 25

Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill is expected to discuss the Board's implementation of the HIQA report's recommendations

Minister meets CHI Board over surgeries controversy

Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has said that at her meeting with the Board of Children's Health Ireland, she made clear that what HIQA's independent review highlighted was wrong and should not have been allowed to happen.

Health • 14 Apr 25

CHI is leading the clinical and operational move of the three children's hospitals Temple Street, Crumlin and Tallaght to the new National Children's Hospital (Pic: RollingNews.ie)

Questions remain over children's spinal surgeries

The issues at Temple Street in a HIQA report published this week relate to a consultant, identified as Surgeon A, and unapproved spinal springs being implanted in three children. We still do not have a full picture of what exactly transpired, writes correspondent Fergal Bowers.

Analysis and Comment • 12 Apr 25

The independent statutory review found that devices were implanted into three children and that "children were not protected from the risk of harm

HIQA report shows serious governance failure - IHCA

The Irish Hospital Consultants Association has said that the HIQA report published on Tuesday, concerning unapproved implantable springs used at Temple Street, highlights serious system-wide governance failures at CHI.

Health • 10 Apr 25

Children's Health Ireland said it will correspond with families as appropriate

CHI to keep families informed about hip surgery audit

Children's Health Ireland has said it will ensure parents, and their families are kept informed through the process of an ongoing audit of a certain type of hip surgery across its children's hospital sites and the National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh.

Health • 09 Apr 25

The use of unapproved medical devices in surgery is a matter of major concern

Lessons to be learned from spinal operations controversy

First and foremost at the heart of this controversy over spinal operations are the children and families affected.

Analysis and Comment • 08 Apr 25

The review said the use of unapproved implantable springs for scoliosis patients was wrong (Image: RollingNews.ie)

'This will not happen again', says CHI on spinal springs

CHI Clinical Director Dr Ike Okafor has said he is confident the body will be able to retain trust from the public following today's publication of a review into the use of unapproved implantable springs in spinal surgery at Temple Street Children's Hospital, and insisted it will not happen again.

Health • 08 Apr 25