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Private work in breach
Gary Culliton | 12 March 2010
Alarming breaches of the private practice provisions of the consultant contract are revealed in a new report seen by IMT. The figures show that many consultants are in gross breach of their contracts with the HSE. The HSE report reveals... Read more
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Bed closures are saving the HSE €0.65m per day
Dara Gantly | 12 March 2010
Current bed closures throughout the country are saving the HSE an estimated €645,414 a day, new figures have suggested. A total of 726 beds were closed in the acute hospital system in the latter half of January, the Minister for... Read more
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CEO search cost €60k
Dara Gantly | 12 March 2010
The recruitment process to find the new CEO of the HSE has cost more than €60,000, it has emerged. The price tag for placing advertisements for the post nationally and internationally last December amounted to €25,055.... Read more
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Transplant and dialysis figures highlighted on World Kidney Day
Gary Culliton | 11 March 2010
The numbers of people with a functioning kidney transplant, or who are on long-term dialysis, is expected to rise by 5 to 6 per cent per year, the HSE’s National Renal Office has said. At present, about 1,850 patients have... Read more
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DOH Secretary General to address troubling ORP report
Dara Gantly | 11 March 2010
The Minister for Health has pledged that Secretary General Michael Scanlan and his management team will address the shortcomings identified in the hard-hitting Organisational Review Programme (ORP) report into the Department of Health. Describing Scanlan as one of the most... Read more
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Glaucoma on increase as Irish population ages
Aoife Connors | 11 March 2010
The prevalence of glaucoma is expected to rise significantly in Ireland, according to a leading consultant ophthal-mologist, as the number of people over 65 in Ireland is predicted to increase by almost two-fifths by 2016 and to treble by 2041.... Read more
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New policy on dementia due
Dara Gantly | 11 March 2010
The Government will start work on a new national policy on dementia this year. Minister of State at the Department of Health, Áine Brady, said current policy on dementia was informed by a number of reports and strategies, principally the... Read more
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Shifts not being covered in EDs - IAEM
Laura Finn | 10 March 2010
Unfilled registrar positions in emergency departments have resulted in shifts not being covered and a reduction in the number of doctors on duty, the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine has claimed. The IAEM are seriously concerned with the difficulty emergency... Read more
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Tallaght X-ray backlog reported to HIQA last April
10 March 2010
A balance of 23,169 X-rays, relating to approximately 14,000 patients, have yet to be read by a consultant radiologist at Tallaght Hospital, it has emerged. The HSE has begun an investigation into how 58,000 X-rays failed to be reviewed by... Read more
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28 hospitals vie for screening involvement
Dara Gantly | 10 March 2010
Twenty-eight hospitals have expressed an interest in providing endoscopy services as part of the national colorectal screening programme. Last December, the National Cancer Screening Service (NCSS) invited 37 publicly funded hospitals, which currently provide endoscopy services, to submit expressions of... Read more
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69 consultant posts approved in 2009
Dara Gantly | 10 March 2010
The Health Service Executive (HSE) approved 69 additional permanent consultant posts last year, 20 per cent of which were for public-only contracts. Just five of these new posts were for consultants in emergency medicine, new figures released by HSE National... Read more
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Call to reverse massive cuts on Connolly
10 March 2010
Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown is facing a 12.6 per cent cut in its budget this year, from €103 million to €90 million. The hospital must now find €7.5 million in savings on top of the €5.5 million in pay cuts... Read more
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New CT scanner for Monaghan Hospital
10 March 2010
The installation of a new CT scanner in Monaghan Hospital is due to be completed by the end of March, the HSE has confirmed. According to Willie Rattigan, Interim Network Manager, Dublin North East Hospital Network, the slight delay has... Read more
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Managers to address cuts in health budgets
Laura Finn | 09 March 2010
Some of Ireland’s leading health managers will gather later this month in Dublin in order to focus on tackling the issues of innovation, change and the worsening financial situation in the health service. Health Service Executive National Director Brian Gilroy... Read more
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RCSI and Tyndall boost medical device market
Laura Finn | 09 March 2010
A collaboration between the RCSI and Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, aims to boost Ireland’s competitiveness in the medical device market by combining the strengths and synergies of the two organisations in ICT design hardware and clinical trial and... Read more
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