Photo courtesy of Julie70 Forget the Museum of Modern Art in Kilmainham or the National Gallery in Dublin city centre. If you want to appreciate art go to the Ulster Hospital in east Belfast. Come to think of it, go to any of the hospitals in the Six Counties. Apparently up to UK£4 million (that’s [...]
The number of people treated for cancer at the Republic’s biggest hospital, St James’s in Dublin, increased by about 125 per cent in 12 years, preliminary data has shown. Statistics presented by Prof John Reynolds, regional director of cancer services in the Dublin south-west area, show that while there were approximately 1,000 cancer cases at [...]
Is the world going mad? This may or may not be true, but I was informed by a friend who has an eight-year-old son that his child is being taught a hybrid form of Irish. No longer it appears is the word gluaisteán in use. Children are now being instructed to use the anglicized version [...]
The Irish Association of Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has accused the Health Service Executive of manipulating emergency department waiting times by moving patients to other departments overnight and “stopping the clock”. Mr James Binchy, IAEM Secretary, said manipulation of waiting times in emergency departments continues because the journey is measured from time the decision is made [...]
The Labour Relations Commission (LRC) would agree with the Irish Medical Organisation’s stance that NCHDs are still entitled to locum cover as provided under the 1986 junior doctor contract, the Chairman of the union’s NCHD Committee has said. Dr John Morris described the issue of locum provision as “one of the biggest things for junior [...]
A new robotic surgical system at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) could be performing two to three surgeries a day by 2009, a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology there told Irish Medical Times. Dr Barry O’Reilly, who will be the first surgeon in Ireland to use the €1.7m Da Vinci Surgical System, said it could [...]
The new eight-storey inpatient ward at St Vincent’s University Hospital is going to be of similar height to existing buildings on site, the Elm Park Golf and Sports Club Limited has been informed, according to a hospital spokesman. The information was revealed to the Dublin 4-based club after it expressed fears to Dublin City Council [...]
The group carrying out the Health Service Executive’s (HSE) review on maternity and gynaecology services, KPMG Consultants, has revealed that it will be recommending whether or not to have all three Dublin maternity hospitals on one site. At a recent meeting, organised by KPMG, the group outlined a number of specific options for the organisation [...]
The Minister for Health has called on healthcare staff to start taking hygiene standards seriously. “There is a huge lack of knowledge among healthcare workers about hand washing,” she said. Minister Mary Harney, speaking at the launch of a Health Management Institute DVD guide to stemming healthcare acquired infection, said it is improper that guests [...]
Would you expect to be diagnosed with bowel cancer and then sent home to wait for an appointment to see a consultant, with only paracetamol to ease your pain? Believe it or not, that is the disgraceful situation in which 45-year-old Eddie Gault from west Belfast finds himself. Mr Gault is currently being cared for [...]
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