The Health Service Executive (HSE) is set to develop a comprehensive database of all NCHDs and their posts, some four years after the move was first recommended in the Buttimer Report. The Executive has asked experts in the field to submit a ‘request to participate’ (RTP) before the end of the month to develop the [...]
Research in England suggests that child obesity trends suggest that there will soon be a class divide: wealthier, skinnier children and poorer, fatter children, according to the BBC. From the website: Currently 6.9% of boys and 7.4% of girls are obese – with the difference between the lower and higher classes 0.6% and 1.5% respectively [...]
In response to the hygiene report from the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) on the Midwestern Regional Hospital, the HSE has acknowledged that hygiene standards in the hospital are ‘deeply unsatisfactory’. The Executive has put in place a plan to address the issues raised by HIQA in its report. This plan includes initiating a [...]
Santa should share Rudolf’s snack of carrots and celery sticks rather than brandy and mince pies and swap his reindeer for a bike or walk, says a public health expert in the Christmas issue published on bmj.com. From the press release: Dr Nathan Grills, from Monash University in Australia, says the current image of Santa [...]
The National Treatment Purchases Fund (NTPF) has spent nearly €8 million over the past three years on sending patients abroad for treatment. According to new figures, some €7.722 million has been spent by the Fund since 2007 on sending 2,582 patients to Britain and Northern Ireland – at an average cost of €2,990 per patient. [...]
Dr Tomoaki Kato, a trailblazing surgeon in the US, performed a 43-hour ex vivo surgery to remove a tumor from a 59-year-old man who said it was too early to die, the New York Times has reported. A massive tumor had engulfed numerous organs, and chemotherapy had no effect. An ex vivo surgery – in [...]
The addition of several new facilities at the Galway Clinic could have a ‘significant impact’ on cancer treatment services available in the Galway region, according to a spokesperson. Two new floors will add 46 new inpatient rooms, as well as a number of Positive & Negative pressurised rooms for treating immune-suppressed patients and a lead-lined [...]
November NTPF figures show a total of 852 people waiting more than three months for a colonoscopy, an increase of 189 since September figures were published. This is despite an instruction from Health Minister Mary Harney to the HSE a year ago that patients needing a colonoscopy should not have to wait more than four [...]
Only one of 28 public hospitals in the State is meeting the HSE’s target to reduce ‘did not attend’ (DNA) rates because large numbers of people are not showing up for their outpatient appointments. The most up-to-date figures, for August 2009, showed all but Cavan General Hospital had a DNA rate of more than 10 [...]
The Irish Association of Emergency Medicine (IAEM) advocates strongly that once standard measures to reduce Emergency Department overcrowding fail HSE managers should institute the Full Capacity Protocol as was done with ‘such success’ in Limerick this week. Download the press release. On Tuesday 1st December 2009, in the face of increasingly unsafe and overcrowded conditions [...]
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