Nearly 9,500 bed days have been lost in Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown this year because of so-called “delayed discharges,” Irish Medical Times has been told. A spokesperson for the Health Service Executive said: “Based on the number of delayed discharges in the hospital through the year to date the number of bed days lost for 2007 [...]
The Health Service Executive’s (HSE’s) “ignorance and inaccuracy” with regard to delays in emergency departments (EDs) has been described by the President of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine (IAEM) as “bizarre”. Mr Fergal Hickey, in a letter to the Director of the National Hospitals Office, Mr John O’Brien, accused the HSE of having almost [...]
It’s old but still good: Once upon a time it was resolved to have a boat race between a hospital team and a team representing the HSE. Both teams trained long and hard to reach their peak performance. On the big day the hospital team won by a mile. Afterwards the HSE team became very [...]
Clinical directorates are being established all over the country, but the Health Service Executive (HSE) is still making all the important decisions, the director of the new cardiothoracic surgery unit at University College Hospital, Galway (UCHG) has told Irish Medical Times. Dr Mark De Costa, who established the surgery unit, said there is not enough [...]
A rough outline for the new children’s hospital at the Mater Hospital– which will be significantly larger than the current three childrens’ hospitals combined– has been published by the Health Service Executive (HSE). The HSE’s High Level Framework Brief sets out basic design specifications, and also proposes the creation of two ambulatory and urgent care [...]
The Health Service Executive (HSE) may not be interested in reaching a deal on a consultant contract with existing consultants, the Secretary General of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) told Irish Medical Times. Mr Finbarr Fitzpatrick said the HSE’s insistence on implementing 24/7 cover for certain specialties, which was not achievable during the proposed [...]
The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has written to the Chief Executive of the Health Service Executive Employers Agency (HSE EA), Mr Gerry Barry, to inform him about specific problems surrounding locums and overtime for junior doctors. Mr Fintan Hourihan, Director of Industrial Relations with the IMO, said that 12 instances were given to Mr Barry, [...]
A CT scanner which is estimated to be worth about €1 million has been lying idle in Mallow General Hospital since December 2006, and more than a thousand patients have had to travel to other hospitals in Cork to get a scan, the Assistant Secretary General of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) told Irish [...]
Once again I have to take my hat off to The Irish News for supplying the inspiration for this blog. The Belfast-based newspaper has broken a great story about what was stolen from 18 hospitals in the north over the past five years. The list contains the usual items you would expect any thief to [...]
Beaumont Hospital lost 22,000 bed days last year, even though there were enough step-down facilities in the region to take patients from the acute hospital, it has been claimed. Fine Gael Health Spokesperson, and Lusk GP, Dr James Reilly said this was the equivalent of two 30-bed wards being shut for the year. He claimed [...]
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