If the criteria applied to Ennis General Hospital by the Health Information and Quality Authority was applied to a raft of smaller private hospitals across the country, they too would be facing closure, a leading IMO doctor has warned. Dr Martin Daly, immediate past president of the IMO, said it was spurious to close these [...]
Heath Minister Mary Harney will launch the new National Rapid Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Service today with the first two Rapid Access Assessment Clinics now open at Galway University Hospital and St James’s Hospital. Developed by the two hospitals with the HSE National Cancer Control Programme and the All Ireland Cancer Foundation, the Rapid Access Assessment [...]
Members of the Irish Nurses Organisation, who recently engaged in one day of industrial action at Sligo General Hospital, have voted by over 90%, in favour of the recent Labour Court Recommendation. Nurses and Midwives had taken the action in an effort to achieve safe staffing levels in Sligo General Hospital where a number of [...]
Consultant neurologists at some hospitals see five times as many new patients as specialists in other hospitals, HSE figures show. Consultants see 104 new outpatients each monthly at Dublin’s Mater Hospital, compared to just 21 in Beaumont. HSE data also shows huge variability in monthly outpatient throughput per neurology consultant at other hospitals: Cork CUH [...]
OUR Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin should be made a ninth centre of excellence under the Cancer Strategy, according to a leading consultant haematologist. Prof Owen Smith said the Cancer Strategy left out paediatric cancer care and he would like Health Minister Mary Harney to address that. “It is another case of children not being [...]
Complex acute care should be transferred to one hospital, according to a report by Horwath Consulting Ireland and Teamwork Management Services, published today by the HSE in Cork and Kerry. No hospital is reccommended for closure. Acute surgical services will remain in Kerry. Basic acute care will be retained in Mallow and Bantry. There should [...]
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