Health Minister highlights extensive advances in cancer prevention and treatment on World Cancer Day

The Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has marked World Cancer Day as a new report says Ireland’s increased five-year cancer survival rates are indicative of “high-quality care”. The recently-published country profile by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for the European Cancer Inequalities Registry highlights that per capita mortality for 9 of the … Read more

Health minister promotes the ‘safe and appropriate use of medication’ to mark World Patient Safety Day

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has today marked World Patient Safety Day 2022 (Saturday, 17 September 2022). Ireland continues to support this international initiative, led by the World Health Organization which focuses on raising awareness and ensuring that patient safety is established as a global health priority. The theme this year is ‘Medication Without Harm’. … Read more

Health Minister meets EU partners in Prague to discuss Ukraine, vaccination and cancer

The Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly attended a meeting of EU Health Ministers in Prague. This Informal meeting of the Employment, Social Policy, Health, and Consumer Affairs (EPSCO) Council is the first meeting of EU Health Ministers under the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union (July to December 2022). The agenda focused … Read more