Tallaght Hospital has kicked off a week of special events to celebrate 400 years of collective nursing service. Ann Donovan, Director of Nursing, said, “We are delighted to be in the unique position of celebrating 400 years of nursing care. The three hospitals (Adelaide, Meath and National Children’s Hospital) pioneered the education and training of [...]
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children has written to the CEO of the Health Service Executive (HSE), Prof Brendan Drumm and requested that he attend a meeting of the committee as soon as possible in order to discuss the current situation at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin. The hospital has revealed that [...]
The outcome of conciliation talks yesterday between the HSE and INO / SIPTU on the Sligo General Hospital dispute is that the unions have recommended a deferral of the strike action pending a referral to the Labour Court and the outcome of same. This recommendation was accepted by union members at a meeting in Sligo [...]
A new survey has revealed that just over 2 per cent of people believe that politicians are “trusted professionals.” While it might seem strange that anybody believes politicians are trusted professionals, 6 per cent of those surveyed said estate agents were trusted professionals. Ahead of those, even, were: Used-car salespeople (5 per cent) And Bankers [...]
Hospital consultants have been excluded from a new Government-initiated comparative review of top-level pay rates across Europe, Irish Medical Times can reveal. The international comparison of remuneration levels will be undertaken for the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Sector, at the behest of the Minister for Finance. The international analysis will look [...]
The dispute by INO members at Killarney Community Hospital continues today with a withdrawal of labour from 3-4pm. Members of the Organisation are campaigning against the imposition of changes in the management structures within the Hospital which will inevitably lead to a downgrading in the status of the Hospital. Essential services will be maintained, the [...]
A HSE working group has given the go-ahead for the first stage of a €100 million national system, designed to cut out lost x-rays that have been at the centre of recent cancer scandals. A Project Board has approved the first four sites at which the National Integrated Medical Imaging System will be installed. The [...]
Emergency department (ED) staff could be forced to live for months in hospitals and even make alternative arrangements for the care of children if an influenza pandemic breaks out, new research has warned. During the SARS epidemic, staff in Hong Kong did not return home for up to three months in a bid to curb [...]
Twenty-seven per cent of mothers who gave birth at the Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital last year were born outside of the Republic of Ireland, new figures reveal. In total, 2,233 mothers at the Coombe were born outside of the country, with 1,044 of these, or 12.5 per cent of the total, from other [...]
Following the release of the National Treatment Purchase Fund Report, Temple Street Children’s Hospital has issued at statement, saying it prioritises the patients on its waiting lists “in accordance to clinical need i.e those with the greatest clinical need in comparison to those with less life-threatening conditions.” “We fully cooperate with the NTPF but we [...]
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