Ocular cancer services will be repatriated from Liverpool to Dublin before the summer, Irish Medical Times has learned. This will involve combining the skills of experts at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear and at St Luke’s Hospital, Rathgar. The National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) last year approved a project plan from the team at [...]
The number of delayed discharges nationally last month was the highest since August 2009, Irish Medical Times has learned. While the latest available HSE Performance Report for December showed a slight decrease in delayed discharges compared to November, HSE CEO Prof Brendan Drumm informed the Board of the HSE earlier this month that there were [...]
As part of IMT’s ongoing special report on the HPAT exam, our reporters have brought you more sample questions. See how well you do.
The average number of patients waiting for emergency department (ED) admission at 2pm daily last month was 143, the HSE has revealed. “This is the annual peak period and was exacerbated by the high snowfalls, which placed additional demands on emergency departments with an increase in orthopaedic presentations of between 30 per cent and 70 [...]
When people with disabilities play characters in a sitcoms that lampoon politicians, celebrities, and everyone else on earth, do they automatically lampoon themselves as people with disabilities? In a recent episode of Family Guy, an animated American sitcom known for unforgiving sarcasm and satire, a girl named Ellen, who has Down syndrome, says that her [...]
The development of a new acute psychiatric unit at Beaumont Hospital is being progressed ‘as a matter of priority’ by the HSE in collaboration with Beaumont Hospital. A site for the unit has been identified and the funding is in place, as part of the development of psychiatric services nationally, under the HSE Capital Plan [...]
St James’s Hospital has begun a search for a provider capable of delivering two magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems to the Dublin hospital, one to replace a current system and another as a new installation. In a document issued last week (February 3), the hospital said it required the supply, delivery, installation and commissioning, including [...]
Beaumont doctors say the “travesty” of sending three organs to the UK was a result of bed shortages. Beaumont Hospital says the problem is not bed capacity per se, but a temporary reconfiguration of beds at the transplant unit as a result of building works. The story, as the Irish Times has reported, is this: [...]
A new study in the British Journal of Psychiatry has found that no significant link between diminishment in cognitive function or memory in pregnant women. The authors have suggested that a preoccupation with memory loss, or the expectation of it in women, is the cause for reporting memory loss.
IMT has published some sample questions this week of the Health Professions Admissions Test (HPAT), as part of the ongoing Special Report on the HPAT. See how well you do.
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