An invasion of privacy?
“In my opinion, the new consultants’ contract has created more of a two-tier divide than ever before.”
CEO of the Mater Private Fergus Clancy comments on the apparent struggle public hospitals are facing in filling consultant posts. While this claim was rejected by the HSE [“absolute rubbish” said acting HSE CEO Brian Gilroy], it was confirmed by Dr John Kennedy, Chairman of the Medical Board at St James’s Hospital, in an interview last week in Irish Medical Times, which was quoted in The Sunday Business Post feature.
The lost and found
“Until all the files are retrieved, the Department cannot say if the results of the inquiry exist.”
A spokesman for the Department of Health was quoted in last Saturday’s Irish Independent on the ongoing controversy over child vaccine trials, and on claims that important files had gone missing. By 10.30am that same morning, all media received an email from Hawkins House clarifying that the files were not missing but, given that they relate to events some time ago, are stored in a secure offsite facility.
Location, location, location
“It doesn’t make any sense. Anybody who knows anything about the needs of children would not pick it.”
Dr Fin Breatnach, retired paediatric oncologist and CEO of Barretstown, comments on the story that just won’t go away — locating the new children’s hospital at the Mater. The Sunday Times image desk had some fun superimposing the heads of Prof Brendan Drumm and Minister Mary Harney on the bodies of Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp of Channel 4’s property show ‘Location, location, location’.
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