Those wily trendspotters (trainspotters?) are at it again. From the people who brought you http://www.responsesource.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=imEQX metrosexual man, globesity and domestic divas comes the new trends for 2008. Babymoons: Hotels that market to couples seeking some tranquillity before entering parenthood – complete with fertility treatments, massage and candle-lit dinners Slum Tourism: more selfless and socially responsible [...]
Many moons ago our esteemed former news editor wrote a blog about a panda falling out of a tree. He managed to tenuously link it to health by suggesting that you could conduct an elementary form of psychoanalysis on people, based on whether they found this distressing or funny. Irish Medical Times is nothing if [...]
The Health Service Executive wants to increase the ratio of day-case to inpatient procedures by 10 per cent, according to the HSE’s 2008 service plan. About 1.18 million inpatient and day-case procedures are planned for 2008, according to the HSE. Roughly 1.16 million emergency department presentations are expected, with about 370,000 hospital admissions resulting from [...]
The Irish Medical Organisation is resisting the roll-out of European Working Time Directive pilots in hospitals, health service management has claimed. Mr Brendan Mulligan, Assistant Chief Executive Officer for Industrial Relations with the Health Service Executive Employers Agency, said there had been “resistance from the IMO”. However, the union has rejected his claim and has [...]
It is unfair to increase emergency department (ED) fees for patients who attend the seven EDs that were deemed unfit for purpose by the Emergency Department Task Force Report, the Secretary of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine has told Irish Medical Times. Mr James Binchy said patients should also be assured that increases in [...]
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has defended itself after criticism from the Master of the country’s busiest maternity hospital, Dr Chris Fitzpatrick, which claimed an emergency request for more space and resources received no response from the HSE. Dr Fitzpatrick, whose hospital, the Coombe Women’s Hospital in Dublin, delivered 8,084 babies last year, said he [...]
Has any verbally or physically abusive hospital patient ever been taken to court or had any type of legal action brought against them? A minority of patients and their relatives, who attend accident and emergency departments, can be obstreperous at the best of times. We can only imagine what it must be like every weekend [...]
The Irish Independent‘s first lead story of 2008 was strange for a number of reasons. The thrust of the story was this: the President of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine, Mr Fergal Hickey, wrote an angry letter to Mr John O’Brien, head of the HSE’s Winter Initaitive, criticising the HSE for its lack of [...]
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