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And they’re off! The 30th Dáil reached the end of its troubled life on Tuesday and the starting gun was fired on the race for the 31st Dáil. The various candidates will be calling to your door in the coming weeks and you will be bombarded with literature, promises, and pledges.

Representatives from the College of Progressive Education, one of Ireland’s leading care training colleges providing courses in childcare, montessori, healthcare, special needs assistant and train the trainer leading to FETAC qualifications, will be in the Newpark Hotel from 5pm on February 9, 2011 to discuss the range of courses available.

The Village Nursing Care Centre near Craughwell has been shortlisted for an award for its outstanding efforts to change the course of tomorrow for patients in Ireland. The Village Nursing Care Centre was one of the 15 inspirational and important shortlisted projects from the healthcare sector in the inaugural Astellas Changing Tomorrow Awards.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has strongly criticised the announcement by the VHI to increase premiums this year by up to 45 per cent.

The decision by VHI to hike premium levels by up to 45 per cent in some instances means that hard-pressed families with private VHI Healthcare are facing a massive €331 hike in fees to keep parents-and-children cover.

One year after Haiti was devastated by an earthquake, Trocaire has thanked people in Kilkenny who donated generously to the recovery operation.

A local city councillor has warned that the massive hike in VHI premiums will result in more people reducing or dropping their private health insurance which will put additional pressure on the already overburdened public healthcare system.

More than one third of patients currently treated at University Hospital Galway could be cared for instead at Portiuncula and Roscommon hospitals, according to the HSE.

While the campaign to stop any cuts for pensions proved successful in the four year recovery plan, Age Action has expressed its disappointment that the Government has ‘agreed to freeze the rate of the State pension until 2015, as part of the bailout deal it has reached with the IMF and the EU’.

Internationally respected pioneer in healthcare and best-selling author, Michael O’Doherty will speak at a seminar in the Clayton Hotel next week. Entitled Learn to Heal Your Own Body, this seminar, organised by Plexus Bio-Energy, will motivate and empower people to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing.