The Kinsale Primary Care Team (PCT) was launched recently — an initiative involving all seven local GPs based in two medical practices with locally-based HSE professionals. In addition to existing HSE services, the Kinsale PCT will provide additional services such as psychology, addiction counselling and speech and language therapy for adults. Many of the PCT [...]
We thought the Republic had it bad – with 41 per cent of men believing that a woman is partially or totally responsible for being raped if she is drunk or takes illegal drugs, that 37 per cent believe she bears some responsibility if she flirts extensively with a man, and 26 per cent if [...]
It might not be the best time to be an Irish child. After discovering that Irish breakfast cereals have higher fat, sugar and sodium levels than the same cereals in other countries, their parents may try to replace that box of Frosties or Nestle Golden Nuggets (the worst offenders) with wholegrain, organic muesli. The people [...]
North East Doctor On Call is moving out of its centre in Navan Hospital because its members fear they will be left to treat casualty patients when Our Lady’s Hospital’s emergency department (ED) is closed by the HSE. The out of hours co-operative has a base at the hospital, as well as in three other [...]
Two tragic deaths at Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital could have been prevented and chronic overcrowding is ‘at the heart of the issue’, Fine Gael Health Spokesman, Dr James Reilly has said. “This chronic overcrowding is due to an inability to discharge patients whose acute phase of treatment is over, as there are insufficient beds in the [...]
An independent investigation of the management of quality and safety arrangements at Ennis General Hospital, following the latest national breast cancer misdiagnosis scandal, has been ordered by the Minister for Health, Mary Harney. The investigation will be carried out by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA), which has stated that it considered briefings received [...]
While there is no reliable evidence to show that bacteria on the clothes of healthcare professionals can spread infection of bugs like MRSA, there’s also no evidence that it doesn’t. The Well, from the New York Times, reports: If a worker entered a room where the patient had MRSA, the bacteria would end up on [...]
Moving the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) into the grounds of another Dublin hospital is now the most ‘realistic’ option sought by opponents of the mooted move to the Thornton Hall prison campus. Such a move would be likely to prompt significant local opposition in the area selected. But despite the opposition of many parties to [...]
The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) has launched a campaign to rid advertising of promises of breasts they called “anatomically impossible” and lunchtime facelifts.
If you text and drive, your reactions times slow more than if you are drinking alcohol, or are under the influence of cannabis, according to a new study in the UK. According to the Irish Times: Reaction times deteriorated by over one-third (35 per cent), compared to the effect of drinking alcohol at the legal [...]
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