The new GP contract in the UK has led to a dip in productivity, with fewer consultations taking place, according to the findings of the UK’s National Audit Office. As reported in the Times, GPs who run their own practices made a bundle while the taxpayer suffered – productivity dropped by 2.5 per cent. Perhaps [...]
UK fertility doctors are performing the world’s first trial of in vivo development (IVD) – which allows fertilised eggs to grow in the womb rather than a petri dish. The Guardian reports: “The year-long trial, involving fertility clinics in Nottingham and elsewhere in Europe, follows a successful small-scale pilot study in Belgium, which suggested the [...]
Irish maternity hospitals have been criticised by a leading stem cell researcher for refusing access to babies’ umbilical cords. The hospitals’ stated reason for refusing access is that the cords are stored at a private facility. But Ballymena-born Prof Colin McGuckin criticised the policy following a cord blood transplant in Newcastle, England where a ’bubble [...]
Panda Bear MD, a blog worth getting to know, rails against the media for condemning doctors who “let a patient die” on an airplane. Hats off again to medGadget for spotting him.
Scientists in Virginia and doctors in Italy have teamed up to further personalised cancer treatment and proteomics – identifying and blocking ways in which the growth of cancer cells can be stopped. The Washington Post story details how former scientists working for the US government felt too restricted by state bureaucracy, and found freedom in [...]
A new quantitative survey in 2009 of a larger sample of migrant nurses is to follow up on the issues raised in the recent RCSI study. The aim is to profile the skills, qualifications and the stage in career of all newly-arrived migrant nurses, in order to assist with health service planning. The uncertainty and [...]
The Health Service Executive (HSE) is expected to announce the location of the new regional hospital in the northeast in coming weeks, almost four months after the original announcement was to be made. Irish Medical Times understands that Ardee and Virginia are the two likely sites for the new building, which will serve the entire [...]
Information given by the HSE to explain recent budget cuts at Mallow General Hospital (MGH) is “misleading”, said Deputy Sean Sherlock (Lab-Cork East), who added the hospital’s budget was cut by e571,233 for 2008 due to the HSE’s negative casemix adjustment. “MGH’s budget had been cut because its workload had been under measured through casemix [...]
A planning row between the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Beaumont Hospital has been settled. Last March, the College applied to Dublin City Council for permission to build a four-storey extension to its Education and Research Centre, known as the Smurfit Building, on the hospital’s campus. The extension was to contain new teaching, [...]
Results from the country’s largest-ever patient satisfaction survey have revealed the five hospitals where patients believe doctors are friendliest — St John’s Hospital, Limerick; Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin; Temple Street Children’s Hospital; the Rotunda Hospital; and Mallow General Hospital in Cork. The survey, done by www.irishhealth.com, aimed to determine the attitude [...]
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