New figures obtained by Irish Medical Times reveal the extent of waiting times facing patients in need of ultrasound tests – a key element in the Government’s cancer strategy – with some patients having to wait ten months. The waiting times for ultrasound tests are 230 days at Tallaght Hospital, 225 at Limerick Hospital, 280 [...]
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has been told that hospitals anticipate a full year loss of more than €20 million in private income due to the implementation of the new consultants’ contract. HSE CEO Prof Brendan Drumm has acknowledged that such shortfalls would encourage hospitals to protect their private rooms for consultants with private billing [...]
The company behind Beacon Court in Sandyford wants to convert a substantial part of an 11-storey apartment and office block at the Dublin development into a residential nursing home. Landmark Enterprises Ltd has applied to Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for planning permission to a previously permitted development on lands at Beacon South Quarter. The company [...]
A new high-tech stem cell lab at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin will have to be removed from the hospital in seven years under an order from Dublin City Council (DCC). The single-storey, 89 sqm prefabricated Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT) processing laboratory has been granted permission by the Council, provided that the structure be [...]
Dublin City Council (DCC) has requested additional information from St James’s Hospital over plans for a new 2,233 square-metre, three-storey administration block on the hospital campus. The Council has ruled that the proposed Administration Block is located on a section of a previously proposed new boulevard. Also, according to the existing Outline Development Control Plan [...]
Niamh Mullen takes a close look at the growing area of bariatric surgery in Ireland, where it is carried out, how many people are now opting for it and how much the procedures cost. A public obesity clinic offering weight-loss surgeries is due to open in Cork next year in a collaboration between Cork University [...]
SURGERIES for morbidly obese Irish people could cost almost E6 million annually in a few years. At a cost of more than E12,000 for a gastric bypass and more than E13,000 for gastric banding, it would cost approximately E5.8 million for the 450 projected surgeries per annum. However, not all of those procedures would be [...]
Parents of diabetic children in Cork are asking to be referred to hospitals in Dublin, where they believe their children will receive superior treatment. Consultant paediatrician at Cork University Hospital (CUH), Dr John McKiernan, said patients were not being treated with modern equipment – only one per cent were on insulin pumps, while 25 per [...]
A world-renowned specialist in minimally invasive surgery visited Ireland last week to perform a procedure that has never been done here before. Prof Martin Walz of the University Hospital of Essen in Germany came to University College Hospital Galway (UCHG) to carry out a laparoscopic retroperitoneal adrenalectomy on three Irish patients. Following the visit, it [...]
The challenge in meeting the needs of visually impaired children over the next 20 years is to develop holistic care, according to an Irish expert. Prof Jonathan Jackson from the Department of Ophthalmology at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast said Ireland was in a good position to tackle their needs. He said better strategies [...]
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