The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) will publish results of the third national hygiene audit in October. It is the first National Hygiene Quality Review undertaken by the Authority. HIQA’s Director of Healthcare Quality, Mr Jon Billings, said: “The Hygiene Quality Review is the most comprehensive ever undertaken in Ireland and included assessments on [...]
A Leitrim GP who refers patients on a regular basis to Sligo General Hospital says the cutbacks at the hospital could leave many patients waiting more than four years to get non-urgent procedures like varicose vein surgery. Dr Sean Bourke said the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has successfully reduced waiting times for procedures, but [...]
Massive staff cutbacks at Sligo General Hospital are just the “tip of the iceberg”, the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) has warned. Mr Donal Duffy, Assistant Secretary General of the IHCA, said the Health Service Executive’s (HSE’s) insistence that the cutbacks were anticipated and would not decrease quality of care was “complete and utter (untruth)”. [...]
The Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) returns to bilateral contract talks this week as disagreements over working hours and remuneration issues threatened to draw all sides once again into a stalemate. The IHCA released a statement outlining management’s position on working hours following delivery of a draft contract of employment by management last week. “As [...]
Never mind ‘The Rumble in the Jungle’. It’s time for ‘The Barney with Harney’. Dr James Reilly bounces into the reconvened Dáil, full of beans after being appointed Fine Gael spokesperson for health. The challenger for the ministerial title has trained hard, having fought his way through manys a challenge as a former Irish Medical [...]
A poll on RTE’s website asking people whether hospital consultants should be paid over 200,000 euro a year doesn’t throw up any surprises. It’s an unfortunate fact (unfortunate for the doctors, I mean) that the general public view doctors and nurses differently when either group is looking for better conditions or more money. In the [...]
Two new consultants have been appointed at Cavan and Monaghan hospitals, despite the recruitment freeze announced by the Health Service Executive (HSE). The HSE announced that consultant surgeon Mr Emeka Nzewi and consultant in emergency medicine Mr Ashraff Butt have taken up the vacant posts. “These are significant appointments for the Cavan & Monaghan area [...]
Construction of a new cardiac and dialysis unit at Cork University Hospital (CUH) has begun, six years after an €82.5 million (£65 million) pledge by former Minister for Health, Micheál Martin. He gave permission for the then Southern Health Board to proceed with the construction of a new multi-million euro facility in October 2001. Nearly [...]
Seems like the Department of Health in the north hasn’t grasped the concept of public consultation yet. In the Republic, public consultation on health issues frequently means the Department of Health or the Health Service Executive (HSE) decide what they are going to do, ask interested parties what they think, and then go ahead with [...]
Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital is pressing ahead with the building of four operating theatres and a 16-bed recovery area. The development will take place next to existing theatres and central sterile services department. While part of the development is a new building, it will also include the redevelopment of an existing structure. The construction process [...]
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