“Work is the best route to recovery from mental ill-health. Currently only one in five people in this category are employed. Without work, they are at greater risk of social exclusion. Most of them want to work.” This is the view of Dr Maureen Gaffney, Chairperson of the National Economic and Social Forum (NESF) which [...]
Since Poland joined the EU almost four years ago, medical and educational establishments all over the country have faced a period of increased restructuring and personnel shuffling. Like many of the other former Communist countries that joined the EU in 2004, membership was the climax of many years of reform. Why then are so many [...]
In light of the recent industrial action by nurses, the question arises as to whether a person whose health has suffered as a result of the action, might be in a position to take successful constitutional action against one or more of the unions involved. The right to bodily integrity is one of the unenumerated [...]
International migration of health personnel is a key challenge for health systems in developing countries,” according to WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan. Dr Chan was speaking following the first meeting of the Health Worker Migration Policy Initiative which was held at the WHO headquarters in Geneva. The initiative is led by former Irish President Mary [...]
Former Irish Medical Organisation President (IMO) Dr Christine O’Malley has some big decisions to make in the coming months and at this stage she intends taking three months leave of absence from the public health service in order to consider them. As revealed on the front page of last week’s Irish Medical Times, Dr O’Malley [...]
The days of voluntary competence assurance (CA) and Continuing Medical Education (CME) are over. With the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) planning primary care inspections in the future and the Medical Council’s ongoing pilot CA scheme, GPs seem to be the ones leading the way for their colleagues as they become some of the [...]
University College Dublin’s (UCD) health policy thinktank, the Centre for Behaviour and Health at the Geary Institute, makes some bold claims about its ability to see through statistics and into the causes of human behaviour. The Centre, which has been around for a number of years but was only officially launched earlier this month, has [...]
Prof Donal Hollywood was awarded an honorary fellowship by Trinity College Dublin (TCD) for outstanding achievement is his field. Prof Hollywood, the Chair of Oncology at Trinity College, was presented the award last week in recognition of exceptional impact in the field of oncology, a spokeswoman from TCD said. Honorary fellowships are given for research [...]
The marketing and sale of “nimesulide-containing medicinal products for oral use” in Ireland has been suspended with immediate effect, the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) announced last week. The products are: Aulin 100mg granules; Mesulid 100mg granules; Mesulid 100mg tablets; Mesine 100mg tablets; and Aulin 100mg tablets. In its statement announcing the suspension, the IMB said: [...]
The Minister for Health Mary Harney said over €8 million has been pledged to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda for expanding capacity before the new regional hospital is built in the North East. Responding to the leaked HSE report, ‘Teamwork Implementation Project Network Priorities 2007’, which states A&E services in Dundalk and Monaghan [...]
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