The deadline for the Irish Healthcare Awards is looming: entries must be received by 3 p.m. on August 7. Download the pdf of the brochure. The categories are: Best Education Project – General Practice/Pharmacy Best Hospital Project Best Educational Meeting Best Patient Education Project – Pharmaceutical Nursing Project of the Year Best Patient Education Project [...]
While the Government’s co-location project was given a major boost this month in Cork and Limerick, God may have intervened over similar proposals in Dublin. Plans to develop the 196-bed co-located hospital at St James’s have been delayed over the fate of a 19th-century chapel on the hospital grounds, Irish Medical Times has learned. Dublin [...]
Twelve large-scale cross-border health projects are to benefit from E30 million in new EU funding over the next four years. Patients in Donegal, Cavan, Monaghan and Louth should have greater access to ENT, vascular and urology services across the border in Northern Ireland, following the planned appointment of additional consultants in the North. Managed by [...]
The Acute Stroke Care Unit at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital Dublin, incorporating the National Children’s Hospital (AMNCH), Tallaght aims to reduce morbidity and mortality by 25 per cent in stroke patients. Due to be officially opened today (Friday June 26) by Minister for Health Mary Harney, the new unit marks an important development for [...]
The HSE will meet with the three paediatric hospitals soon to discuss options for facilitating patients who need spinal deformity surgery. Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin comfirmed it submitted a document to the HSE in January with suggestions about how to reduce waiting lists for spinal deformity surgery. The hospital said it welcomed the [...]
Local hospital committees will have their work cut out for them drawing up new rosters incorporating the terms of the Labour Court recommendations, if NCHDs accept the proposals by ballot this week. Doctors had until 5pm on Thursday June 25 to return their postal ballots to IMO House on the new working arrangements, although ballot [...]
The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) has called for the European Working Times Directive (EWTD) to be scraped just a month before it is due to be fully implemented. In a damning statement released yesterday (June 24), the College indicated that the 12-year-old Directive, as currently envisaged, would not benefit patients and would [...]
Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin has announced that no further wards or theatres will be closed at the hospital in the medium term. The hospital faces a challenge in delivering its service plan for 2009 within its allocated budget of €139.6m. The budget has increased by over €38m since 2004, a 39 per cent [...]
A programme to allow hospitals monitor and evaluate their performance against national benchmarks to improve patient safety was launched this week. The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Faculty of Pathology, along with the HSE’s National Cancer Control Programme and the National Hospitals Office collaborated on the National Quality Assurance Programme in Histopathology. This builds [...]
The RCPI has announced its diploma course on cerebrovascular and stroke medicine for doctors seeking stroke training at the Registrar grade or higher. Here’s the press release: The diploma course will provide the principles for stroke management in an environment where there is a significant increase in evidence based management of stroke and the complexity [...]
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