The Chairman of the IMO NCHD Committee has described recent predictions of an impending crisis in NCHD numbers as a ‘phoney war’. Dr Matt Sadlier told IMT that it would probably only be in the week before the July changeover that a definite idea of the numbers would emerge, and thus the possible implications for [...]
It is because of expected reductions in applications for NCHD posts – and not because of budgetary challenges – that the HSE is seeking “reductions in tiered on-call and improved cross-cover arrangements”, Health Minister Harney has claimed. Speaking in the Dáil, she said: “Instead of cases being referred through successive tiers of doctors, we need [...]
Group photo from Irish Society of Occupational Medicine Spring Conference. Delegates outside Hollister Medical Products factory, Ballina.
Day-patient discharges increased by 7.3 per cent and inpatient discharges decreased by 0.2 per cent between 2007-’08, according to the latest ESRI hospital activity figures. The report — which presents information on discharges from acute public hospitals participating in the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry scheme (HIPE) in 2008 — reveals that close to 1.37 million discharges [...]
The Government is presiding over the closure of almost a quarter of the hospital beds in the country, the Fine Gael Health Spokesperson, Dr James Reilly, has claimed. HSE figures show that there are over 1,500 beds closed or unavailable around the country for a variety of reasons including delayed discharges. Three hundred and thirty-three [...]
Greater efforts could be made to cut waiting times of over 12 months at five hospitals across the country, according to the Chief Executive of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). CEO Pat O’Byrne said the Fund was still experiencing difficulties with regard to Tallaght, Tullamore, Crumlin, Temple Street and Limerick Regional hospitals. “If a [...]
The man whose research scared scores of people into believing there may be a link between MMR and autism was struck off the medical register by the UK’s General Medical Council, which stated that he had “abused his position of trust” and “brought the medical profession into disrepute” in studies he carried out on children. [...]
The global death rate for children under five years old has dropped by 2 per cent since 1990, according to a new study in the Lancet. While 7.7 million children are expected to die this year, the figure is dramatically lower than the 11.9 million deaths in 1990. From the Lancet: “Measurement of mortality in [...]
Research recently published in JAMA showed that about 10 per cent of new fathers suffer from postnatal depression, particularly three to six months following a birth. Edward Davies at the BMJ blogs wonders if it isn’t all a bit of common sense dressed up as medical jargon: -Do I have feelings of hopelessness? Yes. (Particularly [...]
The training body for psychiatrists in this country has said that there is ‘no evidence’ of a link existing between antidepressant use and homicide, and that research has failed to establish a causal link between the use of these medications and suicide. In a detailed three-page document released recently, the College of Psychiatry of Ireland [...]
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