You’re either a biker or you’re not, and if you are, nature has a way of reducing your numbers so as to reduce the threat to the general population. Because, let’s face it, Ireland’s roads are pretty dangerous, but doubly so if you’re on a bike. Whatever chance you might have of surviving an accident [...]
More than 28,000 bed days were lost in the Mater Hospital last year, Irish Medical Times has been informed. The exact figure was 28,105. This is the equivalent of 77 bed days being lost every day in 2006. The least number of bed days lost in a month was in November, when the figure was [...]
People who work routine jobs like driving buses are more likely to die before the age of 65 than architects, doctors, solicitors, etc., according to a report by the UK’s Office for National Statistics. The BBC has reported, in my opinion, that professionals are probably complaining too much about stress and being overworked. It’s obviously [...]
The Minister for Health, Mary Harney, said she did not know if there were any letters from doctors concerned about services in their hospital that were “languishing” in her department. The Minister was asked by Fine Gael health spokesperson, Dr James Reilly, what action she took to address the concerns raised in a letter she [...]
So, if Mary Harney has trouble getting information from the Health Service Executive, what chance do the rest of us have? In a thinly veiled attack on the HSE during a recent Dáil debate on the breast cancer row, the Minister for Health said she spent a good part of one evening trying to get [...]
Hospital reform should have minimal effect on consultants but a major impact on support staff, a British expert on efficiency in healthcare delivery has told Irish Medical Times. Mr Simon Dodds, a Consultant Vascular Surgeon at the Good Hope Hospital, Birmingham, said: “The consultant is the person who adds the greatest value to the process. [...]
Back at university, I used to swim competitively. I’d been at it for many years, since my pre-teens, and when I finally quit, I had truly burned out. I couldn’t even look at a pool without feel nauseated, panicked, and fatigued. When, years later, I tried to get back in the pool just to do [...]
As an ex-smoker, one is subject to many other ailments – especially the dreaded ‘smug mug’ – that supercilleous expression that is the substitute for a cigarette hanging from the mouth. While the smoker exudes an air of coolness — though unaware that he or she also exudes a lot of toxic smells besides – [...]
The 2008 Budget must reflect the fact that budget-saving decreases in activity this year have simply pushed those activities to next year, the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) has warned. Assistant General Secretary Mr Martin Varley told Irish Medical Times that underfunding in 2007 led the Health Service Executive (HSE) to decrease activity such as [...]
The first National Hygiene Services Quality Review, which analysed hygiene standards in 51 hospitals throughout the Republic, has blamed a lack of proper management in the area of hygiene control for the poor results. The review, done by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA), showed there has been no improvement in hospital hygiene levels [...]
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