Don’t get me wrong. We have to have value for money when we are spending public funds. But do you ever wonder how many patients suffer and health workers are disrupted while health service organisations go through the months-long rigamarole of inviting and awarding tenders for products and services that they need? Take, for example, [...]
The Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) has accused the Health Service Executive (HSE) of an “outrageous claim” that only six patients awaiting orthopaedic procedures in Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan, would have wait longer following closure of the unit and claims the actual number is much higher. The HSE has ordered Navan Hospital, which is operating [...]
At least three hospitals in Cork and Kerry have stated they will not provide locum cover for pregnant NCHDs, the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has said. Mr Fintan Hourihan, Director of Industrial Relations with the union, said the IMO had a number of discussions with hospitals throughout the State about provision of locums for pregnant, [...]
Plans for a three-story, 120-bed unit at St Vincent’s University Hospital for patients who need isolation is under review by the department of Finance, Irish Medical Times has learned. IMT understands that the new building, which will provide 120 en-suite rooms, will be used by cystic fibrosis patients, liver transplant patients, and other patients at [...]
One of Ireland’s most influential doctors, and a leading paediatric oncologist, is retiring five years early because of exhaustion and frustration with the Health Service Executive’s (HSE’s) “dictatorial” approach to healthcare reform. Dr Fin Breatnach, who began working at Crumlin Hospital in 1981, told Irish Medical Times he is leaving with “a deep sense of [...]
Decisions are being made– both politically and clinically – that are not in the best interests of children, according to one of Ireland’s leading paediatric oncologists, on the brink of his early retirement. Dr Fin Breatnach is retiring five years early because he is exhausted from 26 years of 60-hour weeks. He is also frustrated [...]
A consultant in the Children’s University Hospital, Temple St is the first in the country to perform a life-saving procedure on a baby still in its mother’s womb. Ms Helena Rowley, consultant Otolaryngologist, operated on a baby using the Ex-Utero Intrapartum Treatment procedure (EXIT) after the baby was diagnosed as having cystic hygroma, which would [...]
The Mercy University and South Infirmary-Victoria University hospitals in Cork will amalgamate into a single university hospital. The move is in part motivated by the need to protect the expertise in the institutions in a context of increased centralisation, particularly in acute hospital care and cancer therapies. Oncology numbers at the two hospitals have tripled [...]
Did you know that viagra has the ability to aid hamsters in overcoming jetlag? That it just might be possible to extract vanilla essence from cow dung? Or, in a terrible escalation of chemical warfare, US researchers are exploring the possibility of creating the world’s first ‘gay bomb’ which when detonated would drive enemy soldiers [...]
Dr Fin Breatnach If you’re starting to get the feeling that the growing power of standards-setting authorities is diminishing your ability to work, that’s because it is. Next week, Irish Medical Times is publishing an interview with Dr Fin Breatnach, the Crumlin Hospital paediatric oncologist who is retiring early, who spoke about how health service [...]
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