The Health Service Executive (HSE) plan to spend more money on the most efficient departments has netted large numbers of new consultants in Dublin, the Mid West, and the South East, while hospitals in the South, North West and the Midlands will see relatively smaller staff increases. The HSE announced that it would install 60 [...]
Beaumont Hospital has said it now supports plans by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) to expand its education and research centre at its Dublin 9 campus, even though the hospital had objected to the proposal. Irish Medical Times reported in April that the RCSI was planning to extend the Smurfit building on [...]
The Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) is planning to meet the Medical Council to discuss the expansion of its Health in Practice Programme (HIPP). The HIPP project was established in 2001 under the direction of Dr Andrée Rochfort to promote good physical, occupational and psychological health and wellbeing for GPs and their families. In [...]
St Vincent’s Hospital in Fairview, Dublin has been told it doesn’t need planning permission for a new six-bed unit at the psychiatric institution. The hospital applied to Dublin City Council in June this year for planning permission for the development. It wanted to fit out an existing ground floor in a 1970s building, as well [...]
Irish Medical Times has learned that the Irish College of Practioners is to stay at its present headquarters in Lincoln Place for at least another three years. College officials had been considering moving to a new premises because of pressure of space and the increased amount of activity and staff using the college’s facilities. The [...]
The number of sexual assault victims seen at the Rotunda Hospital is up 15 per cent from 2005 to 2006, and continues to rise. Dr Mary Holohan, Rotunda obstetrician and National Medical Director of Adult Sexual Assault Treatment Services, told Irish Medical Times the number of people presenting to the Rotunda for sexual assault increased [...]
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has appointed a Director of Health Technology Assessment, who will oversee clinical standards and cost effectiveness in technologies used in the health service. Dr Mairin Ryan, who begins her post at the end of September, worked for the interim HIQA in 2006 as project manager on the Health [...]
Chinese police have seized more than a ton of fake drugs for impotence, bird flu and malaria, including at least 18,000 fake Viagra tablets, according to the Chinese Xinhua News Agency. The Ministry of Public Security detained more than 30 people on suspicion of either making or selling the drugs. The news agency said police [...]
A new survey of lifestyles in Britain reported in Pharmacy Journal UK has shown that self-diagnostics will be the growth area in over-the-counter (OTC) health for the next five years. The survey said rising prescription charges were a factor encouraging people to treat themselves. Mintel, the company that carried out the research, said growing self-confidence [...]
The US government’s health insurance programme for the elderly and disabled, Medicare, will no longer cover the costs of ‘preventable’ conditions, mistakes and infections resulting from a hospital stay from 2009. Medical News Today reported that the extra cost of treating hospital-acquired infections (said to kill nearly 100,000 Americans every year) will have to be [...]
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