All co-located hospitals shall be contractually required to provide financial results to the Health Service Executive (HSE) upon request, Irish Medical Times has learned. Concern had recently been raised that, like other private hospitals in Ireland, providers could put co-located hospitals on an unlimited basis and therefore conceal financial results. A spokeswoman for the HSE [...]
A feline Grim Reaper (but not Oscar) We are all aware of the long-standing superstition of bad luck being visited upon a person who has their path crossed by a black cat. Well in the US things have taken a macabre turn for the worse with nursing home residents passing over to the other side [...]
We all know the dangers of excessive alcohol consumption. Or do we? Numerous health problems for the drinker; the dangers of drinking and driving; fights and violence caused by booze. No laughing matter, I think we can all agree. But now two men in Antrim have apparently decided to raise the bar a little by [...]
Vincent Sheridan Vhi CEO Mr Vincent Sheridan – while speaking at a press conference this morning to justify the proposed hike in insurance rates – reminded us all of healthcare’s dirty little secret: that the economics of capacity is upside down. That is, rather than drive costs down, a surplus in bed capacity drives costs [...]
A lack of close co-operation between the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) and four public hospitals is the reason those hospitals have the largest number of patients waiting more than a year for surgery. Of the nearly 15,000 adult patients waiting for surgery nationwide across 36 hospitals, about 4,500 are waiting longer than 12 months. [...]
In the past 10 or more years, dozens of health reviews and service reports have been published by the Government, and more recently, by the Health Service Executive (HSE). Some of these reports are famed for gathering dust while waiting for someone to implement them. In the HSE’s case, however, the majority of reviews and [...]
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has been called on to retain all services in Dublin’s three maternity hospitals– which are three of the busiest in Europe with over 8,000 deliveries each per year– following the ongoing review to decide the future configuration of services. The Master of the Rotunda hospital, Dr Michael Geary; former master [...]
The unacceptably low numbers of urologists in Ireland has resulted in a serious problem in the training of junior doctors, a consultant urologist and Medical Council member has told Irish Medical Times. Mr Hugh Bredin said the shortage of publicly appointed consultant urologists meant most of the least complex surgeries– procedures that are ideal for [...]
England’s Chief Medical Officer has said that organ donation regulations should change, from opt-in to opt-out: meaning everyone, when they die, would be organ donors, unless they have specifically requested not to be. He believes this to be the best way to tackle waiting lists for organs, although some critics of the idea think it’s [...]
There was an interesting coincidence in the office this morning. (A place not regularly identified with the frequent occurence of interesting coincidences.) I received a newsletter from Age Action Ireland, which dealt with a few issues concerning our older citizens – from healthy ageing to getting a new deal from the government. It got me [...]
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