The Private Hospitals Association (PHA) has called on the Government to pay the €1,000 tax-free pandemic bonus to all private hospital healthcare workers across Ireland

Ireland's 29 emergency departments will each be given individual plans by the HSE, to prepare them for the winter months

There are calls for a zero tolerance approach to attacks on healthcare staff after new figures found there were over 7,300 verbal, physical or sexual assaults on staff in the last 18 months.