AN advocacy group has blasted Children’s Health Ireland after an audit of how they spent cash meant to fix kid spinal surgery ...

Children with scoliosis or spina bifida were not prioritised for funding of around €19m allocated nearly three years ago to ...

The HSE audit also revealed that targets for reducing waiting lists for children for spinal surgery are not being met ...

The Spina Bifida Hydrocephalous Paediatric Advocacy Group said: 'It shows the lack of urgency in addressing the suffering of children up until serious public pressure came in the form of advocacy ...

The audit was commissioned after Health Minister Stephen Donnelly raised concerns in July a tranche of €19m was spent 'more ...

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly insisted yesterday that children with scoliosis and spina bifida were not fully prioritised by hospitals that had been allocated over €19m to tackle waiting lists – ...

A North Ogden man is frustrated with health insurance for denying something that his family and his doctors say is needed for ...

A BOY suffering from scoliosis has finally undergone the first of a number of corrective surgery on a life-threatening curve ...

It was like he was trapped inside himself. He couldn’t communicate what he was feeling, and it came out in anger. It broke my heart to see him like that.” ...

Gwennan Jones, 18, along with Tammi Tonge, 17, both from Conwy, and Joshua Stott, 17, from Flintshire, have been chosen as ...

The term scoliosis comes from the Greek word skolios, meaning curved or crooked, aptly describing the medical condition in which the spine curves sideways, often in an S or C shape. The condition ...

Lindsey Johnson Edwards is sharing what it is to be in her 20s and live with a rare disease, trying to embrace joy and choose ...