The lack of voluntary participation in the Medical Council’s pilot self-regulation schemes and the “lukewarm commitment to them from some” is a missed opportunity to show that the profession is serious about learning from past mistakes, the former president of the Medical Council told Irish Medical Times. Dr John Hillery said he has heard doctors [...]
A three-storey residence in Dublin 6 could be made into a healthcare centre. A planning application was submitted by Mr Dara Reynolds, seeking permission to change the use of the house at 74 Terenure Road East. It is also planned that it will link into number 74A Terenure Road East, which is currently a dental [...]
A Dublin 4 house that was used as medical consulting rooms is to be converted into an embassy for the Republic of Lithuania, according to Dublin City Council documentation. According to documents in the planning file, Consultant Urologist, Mr Peter McLean, used to have private consulting rooms at the house at 14 Ailesbury Road until [...]
Crumlin Hospital has new plans for its bone marrow transplant and oncology department. The Dublin 12 hospital recently applied to Dublin City Council for permission to demolish the existing facilities on site and replace them. The bone marrow transplant and oncology facilities in St John’s Ward will then be refurbished and extended. The extension will [...]
A private healthcare facility has been ordered to pay €4,000 to a former employee, after the Equality Tribunal found that it discriminated against her on the grounds of disability. The facility involved was a private hospital that treats patients who need acute and palliative care and also those who have undergone spinal surgery. The tribunal [...]
The Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) returns to bilateral contract talks this week as disagreements over working hours and remuneration issues threatened to draw all sides once again into a stalemate. The IHCA released a statement outlining management’s position on working hours following delivery of a draft contract of employment by management last week. “As [...]
GPs, health centres and hospitals have been told to be careful not to send vaccines that are in-date back to the Health Service Executive (HSE). The HSE National Cold Chain Delivery Service, which takes returns of out-of-date vaccines, has told these groups that usable vaccines have been sent back to them, along with damaged and [...]
Concerns have been expressed to Irish Medical Times that no central fund appears to exist to allow psychiatric services to fight High Court and Circuit Court cases in relation to involuntary detention of patients. IMT has been told that individual psychiatric services are running up legal bills of hundreds of thousands of euros each and [...]
A worldwide shortage of organs has forced many people with end-stage illnesses to rely on living donors– either relatives, or strangers from poorer countries where organs can be obtained cheaply– to donate kidneys, liver sections, lung lobes, skin and bones for grafts, according to news agency Reuters. Risks for donors– including bleeding, infection and death– [...]
GPs in the North East out-of-hours service (NEDOC) have resolved a two-year row with the Health Service Executive (HSE) over providing services to patients with GP-only medical cards. According to chairperson of the co-op, Dr Ursula Keane, they have negotiated a Service Level Agreement to last until June 2008. “We were continuing to treat patients [...]
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