Junior doctors are happy with the relationship between themselves and non-medics in hospitals and are also positive about the overall atmosphere in the institution where they work. The findings are revealed in an Irish Medical Organisation’s (IMO) survey of non-consultant hospital doctors, which 284 non-consultant hospital doctors participated in. The survey found that 42 per [...]
Junior doctors’ representatives are looking for exemptions for pregnant NCHDs so they do not have to do on-call work from the 24th week of their pregnancy and do not have more than 10 hours a day from their 28th week on. The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) said that it wants full locum cover to be [...]
The only people in Ireland who support the Mater Hospital site for the national children’s hospital are people with vested interests in the Mater, a Crumlin Hospital anaesthetist has told Irish Medical Times. Dr Brendan O’Hare said that ongoing talks about the development of the new centre are completely ignoring the views held by many [...]
Senior House Officers and interns at Sligo General Hospital are not to be involved in giving information to relatives about a patient’s medical condition. The Office of the Ombudsman’s annual report for 2006 noted that a protocol on this issue was drawn up by the hospital, following an investigation by the Ombudsman in relation to [...]
The decision by the Board of Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, to allow the development of a private hospital on-site has been heavily criticised by opponents of the Government’s co-location plan, including deputy leader of the Labour party Liz McManus. “It was a decision made under duress as the board of the hospital had come under intense [...]
Prof Walter Prendiville has been appointed director of Ireland’s first National Clinical Skills Centre (NCSC), based at the Coombe Women’s Hospital. The NCSC, which received funding from the Health Service Executive (HSE) and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), will provide facilities for professional bodies to conduct training courses on clinical skills in [...]
Mobile phones with quirky ringtones are fun, especially in the hands of middle aged men and women. Even more so when the people concerned are the democratically elected representatives of the people of the Republic of Ireland. During her first ministerial question time since the recent election, Mary Harney got a bit mixed up and [...]
This year Irish Medical Times celebrates 40 years of reporting the news in Irish healthcare. It is a milestone to be celebrated as far as we are concerned. Those of you practising medicine in the Irish Republic should have been the proud recipients earlier this month of a special issue of Irish Medical Times which [...]
Maybe if the Western Health and Social Care Trust were involved in the peace process in the north of Ireland, then peace, love and harmony would have broken out decades ago. You see the Trust has managed to unite the DUP, Sinn Féin, the SDLP and the UUP and give them common purpose. And what, [...]
A review of the hospital-acquired infection, Clostridium Difficile Toxin (CDT) in the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick has found that Ireland’s incidence of the infection remains high, and that the use of multiple antibiotics needs to be avoided to reduce CDT in hospitals. The study’s authors, from the Clinical Audit Department, found there were 21 [...]
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