The Department of Finance has put the brakes on an urgent risk assessment of Beaumont Hospital’s information system (BHIS), the failure of which could pose a risk to patient safety. The hardware and software underlying the BHIS has been deemed ‘obsolete’ by the hospital and is based on technology that is more than 20 years [...]
A €48 million facility for research into the healthcare of older people was opened this week. The Centre of Excellence for Successful Ageing, located at St James’s Hospital, was launched by the Minister for Health, Mary Harney. The Centre will combine prevention and clinical care, research and teaching. It will also provide innovative early diagnostic [...]
Galway University Hospitals (GUH) is hosting Ireland’s second International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) bone densitometry course this weekend. Following the success of last year’s event, GUH is running the programme for clinicians and technologists on May 14 and 15 at the G Hotel, Wellpark, Galway. Some 58 people participated in the 2009 course, including [...]
Objections made to the introduction of a system of reference pricing, combined with generic substitution under the GMS and community drugs schemes, by the Irish Osteoporosis Society (IOS) will be taken into account during the implementation phase of the initiative, the Minister for Health has confirmed. The IOS recently sent out a letter to all [...]
More than eight out of ten Irish people report that they were always asked for their written consent for surgery, a new European survey shows. In Germany, however, the figure is 90 per cent when it comes to being asked to provide written consent. These figures come from the EU Commission Eurobarometer Special Survey on [...]
There were 307,138 clinical incidents/’near misses’ logged by the Clinical Indemnity Scheme (CIS) last year, Dr Ailis Quinlan, Head of the CIS, told a conference in Dublin last week. The ‘Clinical Negligence & Access to Justice Conference’ was organised by a British-based patient charity called Action Against Medical Accidents. In all, 3,754 of these events [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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