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The Village Nursing Care Centre in Craughwell has recently been short-listed for an NHI care award. The award category, “The Nursing Home Community Initiative Award”, was established to celebrate the contribution that nursing homes make to the local community.

An anti-health cuts website set up by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is attracting huge online traffic from beleaguered health care workers who are campaigning to keep their jobs and make the health system work.

Flag Days, in aid of the Susie Long Hospice Fund, take place on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 September. Volunteers will be collecting at various locations in Kilkenny.

Following several years of extensive fundraising and the negotiation of several stumbling blocks along the way, the South Westmeath Hospice facility in Athlone is preparing to open its doors to patients from September 6.

SIPTU members in HSE West are to be balloted for industrial action following the failure of management to engage in discussions over threatened job cuts. The union’s senior health organiser, Paul Bell, stated it was necessary to hold a protective strike ballot in case management decides to act unilaterally and implement the sort of cuts being leaked to the media in recent days.

Two Kilkenny men, Martin O’Neill and Sean Breathnach joined a group of 40 feisty fundraisers taking part in a mammoth challenge — the Kingspan Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) Cycle Challenge which sees them do their own personal Tour de France.

A novel new competition to highlight the good work done in Irish nursing homes has just been launched.

The timing of ward rounds at Galway University Hospitals are to be changed to ensure the earlier discharge of patients who have been treated and are waiting to go home or move to another health service.

A new direct GP referral system means family doctors may now bypass A&E when referring patients to University Hospital Galway.