Crumlin Hospital is pressing ahead with a six-bed unit that will treat patients with infectious diseases. The unit will be an interim solution while the new National Paediatric Hospital is being built. The facility will normally operate as a six-bed infectious diseases unit, although it will be capable of having two of its beds switched [...]
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has “failed to act on all the major conclusions” of the Emergency Department (ED) Task Force report, the Secretary of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has told Irish Medical Times. Speaking on the one-year anniversary of the report’s completion, Mr James Binchy said the lack of specific funding [...]
Sometimes journalists just hit the nail on the head. Earlier this year, Professor Luke Clancy, of the anti smoking organisation, ASH, called for smoking in cars to be banned. Following this, there were those who wholeheartedly agreed with him, and those who screamed that it was the ‘nanny state’ at it again – trying to [...]
Using squeezy stressballs to kill MRSA is not as crazy as it sounds according to a Cumbria-based manufacturer who claims to be both sane and sober. Urofoam www.urofoam.co.uk has launched a new collection which is coated with an NHS-approved anti-bacterial lacquer, proven to kill a whole range of bugs responsible for hospital ward infections. Mark [...]
Nurse prescribing is not going to have any effect on delays in emergency departments, an Emergency Medicine Consultant at Cork University Hospital (CUH) has told Irish Medical Times. Dr Stephen Cusack said he has no concerns with nurses prescribing “simple, humble” medications, but that nurse prescribers will not have any effect on speeding up the [...]
St Vincent’s University Hospital is “totally bursting at the seams” with cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, and the lack of a dedicated facility means many of them have to be placed in rooms where they are at a high risk of infection, the Cystic Fibrosis Association has said. Mr Godfrey Fletcher, Chief Executive Officer of the [...]
The redistribution of resources from private to public patients in acute public hospitals is consistent with allegations that the latter type of patients are being crowded out, a working paper from the Economic and Social Research Institute has suggested. The paper, The Public/Private Mix in Irish Acute Public Hospitals: Trends and Implications, covers the years [...]
Sainsbury’s – who through their spokesperson (should that be smokesperson?) Jamie Oliver are always urging us to ‘try something new’ are now funding a study undertaken by MS Society in the UK www.mssociety.org.uk that examines the use of a chemical compound of the cannabis plant in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). The MS Society has [...]
Thieves who broke into Father Christmas’s grotto in Belfast last weekend, practically snatched money away from terminally ill children. Some genius or geniuses decided it would be great craic to break into Santa’s workshop, just outside Belfast City Hall, and steal his suit. Firstly, children who went to see Saint Nicholas the next day were [...]
Reading the medical press is an education in itself on many levels – there are some interesting columnists out there. One of them is UCC graduate Dr John Ryan who now lives in Boston. In his latest column for one of the medical papers, he wrote about how he had attended an UCC alumni dinner [...]
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