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 [...]
A huge number of NCHDs have nowhere to go when they finish and attain their qualifications, NCHD Chairman Dr Matthew Sadlier told the IMO AGM. “There’s a mismatch of significant proportions there,” he stated. “Every July, I get news of friends and colleagues emigrating to Canada, Australia or the UK, in their early thirties, with [...]
Between 300 and 500 deaths from strokes could be prevented annually, CUH Professor Cillian Twomey told the Irish Medical Organisation’s AGM. He called for provision of stroke units, saying the Irish Heart Foundation had estimated that the number of strokes could be reduced by one quarter. Patients are being left devoid of supports due to [...]
The best way the Irish health service can help stem the current brain drain of NCHDs abroad will be to honour the terms and conditions of employment negotiated in the recent contract in ‘deeds and words’, IMO delegates in Killarney were told. Speaking at the National NCHD meeting, NCHD Comm-ittee member Dr Anthony O’Connor said [...]
The Government’s Fair Deal scheme is contributing to delayed discharges, which are clogging up hospitals, Cork University Hospital geriatrician Prof Cillian Twomey claimed at the IMO AGM last week. “There’s now a delay in the moving of people out of hospitals, because of the application of the nursing home support scheme legislation,” Prof Twomey said. [...]
Human resources managers and financial departments within hospitals are carrying out an organised campaign to fraudulently withhold wages from doctors, non-consultant hospital doctors were told in Killarney. Speaking on a series of three linked motions at the National NCHD Meeting at this year’s Irish Medical Organisation AGM, Dr Maitiu Ó Faolain told delegates that what [...]
The Executive Council of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), has recommended rejection of the proposals on public service pay and transformation for the period 2010 – 2014. The Executive Council will now ‘develop its alternative agenda for change in the health service and present it to the union’s annual delegate conference on the [...]
HSE South has confirmed that it is extending the engagement process in relation to the reconfiguration of acute hospital services in the South East counties. Following a meeting in Kilkenny on Friday last of the steering group for the future development of such services, the project’s clinical lead, Dr Colm Quigley, said the HSE South [...]
The National Treatment Purchase Fund has found a very large percentage of those who had their outpatient appointment did not need a procedure. This is particularly true in orthopaedics, where up to 70 per cent of those who saw a consultant do not need a procedure. “Very often, they need referral to a physiotherapist,” Minister [...]
There is a real need for a national development committee for children’s palliative care to be established, according to the Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF). There are an estimated 1,400 children with life-limiting conditions in Ireland and about 350 related deaths every year. The IHF has now committed itself to funding Ireland’s first palliative care consultant [...]
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