Health Minister Mary Harney has in recent weeks secured a Government pledge to fund a new designated cancer centre north of the border, Irish Medical Times has learned. The Government has made a commitment to support and invest in a cancer centre at Derry’s Altnagelvin Hospital, which would serve the population of Donegal. The HSE [...]
The HSE has established a Human Resources and Integrated Services Directorate Group to ‘ensure adequate NCHD staffing levels and continued service delivery’. Concerns have been expressed in relation to a possible reduction in NCHD numbers when the new rotational cycle commences in July. This Group is currently working on initiatives to ensure that services will [...]
You can download the registration form for the Cork GP Seminar here: part of IMT’s hugely successful “Managing a Successful Practice” series. Some info: Venue: River Lee Hotel (formerly Jury’s), Western Road, Cork Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010 Places are limited for this exclusive event. If you wish to attend, please complete the Registration Form [...]
One permanent and one locum surgeon on the staff of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Navan, Co Meath, are not on the Medical Council’s specialty register, Irish Medical Times has learned. The HSE has advised GPs in the area that all current services will continue to be provided in the Louth/Meath hospitals, notwithstanding any [...]
Deirdre Mangaoang has been appointed new Press Officer with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Doctors Without Borders Ireland. MSF is an international medical humanitarian organisation that provides medical relief to victims of war and disaster during disease outbreaks. For the past seven years Mangaoang has worked for MSF Ireland as Active Recruitment Officer before embarking on [...]
Parenting expert Penelope Leach says it is now a fact that letting babies cry is potentially harmful to their developing brains. Gina Ford is expected to pounce with more facts soon. A Guardian columnist says stop with the tone of authority.
Hospital patients are at a seriously increased risk as a result of the loss of 2,000 nursing posts. The president of the Irish Association of Directors of Nursing and Midwifery, Irene O’Connor warned the Government of this risk in a speech delivered at the Association’s AGM. The speech was delivered on her behalf by Association [...]
At the centre of this movement is an organisation called Core Issues, a Northern Ireland Christian initiative run by Mike Davidson, a married man who describes himself as having been “in conflict with unwanted homosexuality . . . before finally seeing the light.” Core Issues has brought a series of high-profile ex-gay speakers from the [...]
Thirty-five-year-old Sarah Colwill puts the startling change down to an extremely rare medical condition known as Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS). Other stories of Foreign Accent Syndrome:
The IMO is to seek a meeting with the Minister for Health and the Medical Council to address what it has described as ‘unforeseen consequences’ arising from the Medical Practitioners Act 2007, which is placing restrictions upon doctors on the training register. As NCHDs now practise in a specific, individually numbered post under the supervision [...]
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