The HSE will sign Project Agreements (PAs) to build and run two co-located hospitals this week – one at Waterford and one at St James’s in Dublin. Following considerable wrangling, bonds totalling €40m will now be posted by the two hospital consortia with the HSE. Synchrony, a development consortium that includes multinational firm Capio Healthcare [...]
Construction has begun on a 50-bed Community Nursing Unit at St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital in Cork. The Unit is one of four proposed facilities that will provide public long-stay, therapeutic, rehabilitative and medical care for older people. The first of such units – St. Joseph’s Community Nursing Unit, a 37-bed unit situated in the refurbished [...]
Beacon Dermatology has been awarded Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCI) in recognition of the clinic’s “commitment to providing excellence in safety standards and quality care,” the firm said. Beacon Dermatology is a consultant-led dermatology clinic offering an extensive range of medical, surgical and cosmetic dermatological treatments. Patients may book directly to make an appointment for [...]
There’s no excuse for cheapshots about comb-overs, unless you’re talking about a man who’s allegedly preyed on the insecurities of thousands of women by promising to make them beautiful at a discount for 14 years, and who’s been being charged with disfiguring and endangering the lives of 96 women. That’s Michel Maure, the man who [...]
What the rest of the world calls pathetic, California calls sophisticated fun: here’s a video of people hanging out together in a wine bar on a nondescript suburban street in California, getting cosmetic touch-ups like botox and eyebrow-waxing.
The Irish Times is now getting in on the act of reporting the story about the 1,800 jobs to be shed in the hospital sector in Ireland. The chronology of this story is interesting: it was first reported in the Irish Medical Times on July 4 under the heading ‘Hospital Sector to lose 1,800 jobs’. [...]
A training program called Xtreme Aging is helping people empathise with the elderly. Participants wear: distorting glasses to blur her vision; stuffed cotton balls in her ears to reduce her hearing, and in her nose to dampen her sense of smell; and put on latex gloves with adhesive bands around the knuckles to impede her [...]
The Irish Times is reporting today that the points required by Leaving Certificate students for many University courses has fallen — especially those course related to construction and property. Medicine, however, still requires a near-perfect Leaving Certificate and the points remain virtually unchanged — Trinity requires 585, UCD requires 575 as does UCC, while NUIG [...]
The Irish Medical News is reporting today that 1,800 jobs are to go in the Irish hospital sector — according to the ‘latest’ figures from the Health Service Executive. Of course,this isn’t news to anyone else in the health sector — the Irish Medical Times reported on this story over six weeks ago in our [...]
An international cancer expert who was speaking at meetings in Dublin and Cork had what was described as a ‘near-death’ experience when the aeroplane on which he was flying from Dublin to Cork had to return to Dublin after it lost an engine. Prof Thomas Lynch – who was accompanied by his daughter and several [...]
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