The HSE plans to deliver the 17 new critical care beds Crumlin Hospital considers it requires within 18 months. “We will supply 17 new beds in the new development. We will close the old development but use it as a support service for the 17 beds and this comes in at the same cost as [...]
The blog of the BMJ’s Journal of Medical Ethics is always worth checking into – complex treatments of apparently simple problems. In the latest entry on the handling, by the press, of the H1N1 virus, the author questions the role of the journalist with regard to truth. So we can construct an argument about bad [...]
A study in Science suggests there may be a link between chronic fatigue syndrome and a recently discovered virus, the New York Times reports. The new suspect is a xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus, or XMRV, which probably descended from a group of viruses that cause cancer in mice. How or when XMRV found its [...]
The project manager for the reconfiguration of acute hospital services in the South East is due to make a presentation on the progress on the scheme to politicians later this month. Breda Kavanagh will address members of the Regional Health Forum on October 22 in Kilkenny. Together with Hospital Network Manager Richie Dooley, Kavanagh already [...]
Massive waste caused by duplication of x-rays and other imaging tests at hospitals across the country has been revealed in new figures obtained by Irish Medical Times. Radiologists at certain hospitals are taking five times as many x-rays as those at other hospitals, and a HSE project aimed at eliminating the waste is currently stalled [...]
The recession has hit the Irish Heart Foundation (www.irishheart.ie), which has been faced with cutting vital programmes for people and their families affected by heart disease and stroke. So, a supermarket to the rescue? Under Lidl’s charity scheme, the business donated 10 per cent of fruit and vegetable purchases of €10 or more to the [...]
A total of 8,935 cancelled procedures have occurred so far this year, the HSE has said. This is 1.4 per cent of overall activity. Between January and June 2009 the acute hospitals admitted over 329,757 day case patients and over 298,329 in-patients – a total of over 628,000 admissions. “In some cases cancellations occur for [...]
A conference on research in nursing and midwifery takes plans October 9 at the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery. Topics include: Postnatal depression in first-time mothers; The use of information technology to improve patient care; Self-neglect of older adults; Ethical issues at end of life care. From the press release: The Catherine McAuley [...]
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