Non Consultant Hospital Doctors (doctors in training), represented by the Irish Medical Organisation, have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action should talks between the IMO and the HSE/Department of Health and Children under the auspices of the Labour Relations Commission fail to bring about a resolution on NCHD training rosters. Of the returned ballots [...]
A total of 14% of orthopaedic admissions due to sports and recreation injuries were for trampoline/bouncy castle accidents, new research from the Department of Rheumatology, Sports & Exercise Medicine at Cork University Hospital shows. The paper published in the Irish Medical Journal emphasises that adequate advice and instruction should be provided before these items are [...]
THE Emergency Department of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda is back “on call” after being on “protective call” for 24 hours. However, in a statement issued this afternoon (Wednesday, February 25) the HSE said the public were requested to contact their GP, or GP out-of-hours service before presenting to the Hospital. There were 45 [...]
The total number of people waiting at Northside Hospitals for operations increased by 345 (up 9%) while on the Southside the number waiting dramatically improved, down 1522 (or 25%). These figures were released by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). There are now 4358 waiting at Northside Hospitals, with 3054 waiting for surgical procedures and [...]
A total of 52 patients were on Trolleys yesterday in the Emergency Department of Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital, according to the Irish Nurses Organisation’s (INO) Trolleywatch. The hospital disagreed, saying that at 8am yesterday, there were 44 people awaiting admission (either on trolleys or on chairs). There were also six patients in Beaumont’s admission’s lounge, the [...]
The unpublished Prospectus report on adult critical care services calls for up to 100 new intensive care beds across the country – an increase of almost one third – as well as for critical care units at tertiary hospitals to be headed by full-time intensivist consultants for the first time, it is believed. The final [...]
There were 35 patients on trolleys in both Beaumont and St Vincent’s hospitals in Dublin yesterday, according to the Irish Nurses Organisation’s Trolleywatch. There were 34 patients on trolleys in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. Based on the HSE’s own trolley count at 2pm each day last year, the average number of patients [...]
Staff at Portiuncula Hospital in County Galway have been warned by the HSE that services will be curtailed and jobs put at risk if industrial action threatened by the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) in support of five senior nurse managers who have been on sick leave since last November goes ahead. The HSE said that [...]
A patient in North Tipperary had to wait over three hours for an ambulance to arrive last week according to local Labour Senator Alan Kelly. The incident was caused by overtime cuts in the ambulance service which leave the service over-stretched, Senator Kelly said. The overtime cuts means that at certain stages of the week [...]
Research shows that almost half of people are unaware that eating an unhealthy diet increases their risk of developing cancer. According to the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), four out of ten people (41%) did not know that there is a link between what they eat and the disease. The poll of 2,000 people found [...]
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