The HSE has set a target of reducing MRSA rates by six per cent in 2009. From now on, rates of the superbug will be reported on a quarterly basis. A statement from the HSE said: “We did not have any baseline data at outset when targets were set as surveillance systems were not in [...]
The Ozone Centre in County Clare has announced 20 new jobs for Ennis: the new jobs will be created over the next six weeks at the newly opened Ozone Centre in the Quin Road Business Park. Here’s the press release: The Centre contains Clare’s largest gym, seven purpose-built health suites and a multipurpose conference suite. [...]
The families of 24 children with autism are hosting a music night at the Village, Dublin, on Saturday, April 18, to to raise urgently needed funds for Saplings School for Children with Autism. Live acts Kíla and Ciara Considine, followed by DJs, will play from 19.30 to 02.30. The families are currently raising €14,000 a [...]
Following its recommendation that Ennis hospital should be significantly downgraded because of safety concerns, HIQA has urged that reviews be carried out of similarly configured hospitals. Clare TD Pat Breen said that HIQA’s report was ‘the beginning of the end for Ennis Hospital’. HIQA’s report found that certain serviceswere no longer sustainable at Ennis. Patient [...]
Photo: Dr Brian Lawlor, panel speaker at the RCPI Public Meeting, ‘Ageing Well – Ageing Positively’ Dr Diarmuid O’Shea, Consultant Geriatrician, speaking ahead of the RCPI Public Meeting, ‘Ageing Well – Ageing Positively’, that there’s no secret ingredient for healthy ageing. “A recipe for ageing well has no secret ingredient and can only be achieved [...]
Synchrony Properties Ltd has sought planning permission from Dublin City Council (DCC) to develop the long-awaited 196-bed co-located hospital at St James’s Hospital in Dublin. The eight-storey development will be on a 1.148 hectare site in the south western section of the St James’s campus, bounded by the South Circular Road to the west, the [...]
Prof Jan Smith has been appointed Associate Medical Director at Beacon Hospital, Dublin and will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the medical staff, practices, protocols and physicians at the hospital. He has worked in the USA, Italy, South Africa and Tanzania as both an academic and physician. He spent much of his early [...]
ELECTIVE services at Cavan and Monaghan general hospitals were curtailed for almost two weeks over Easter and the restrictions will apply to roughly a further six weeks this year at each hospital. Elective and gynaecological surgery, minor procedures, endoscopy, day services and pre-assessments did not take place at the hospitals from April 6 to April [...]
A major drive has been launched to reduce inappropriate admissions to hospitals, starting with the north east (NE) — where new figures reveal the number of patients who should never have been admitted is 65 per cent higher than in the rest of the country. One fifth of all patients in four NE hospitals should [...]
An ethics lecture in Cork on euthanasia was cancelled last week because protesters called the speaker a “murderer.” At least “murderer” is what the Irish Examiner heard. The HSE has stated: “Strong vocal opposition made it impossible for the chair to introduce the guest speaker at this year’s annual ethics lecture which was due to [...]
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