The row between pharmacists and the Health Service Executive (HSE) over methadone stoppage intensified last week, with the HSE accused of making “misleading” statements about the problem by UniPhar, one of the country’s largest pharmaceutical wholesalers. Alternate methods of methadone provision are still being provided in Dublin after 140 pharmacists withdrew their services to users [...]
The Health Service Executive (HSE) did not discriminate against a doctor who unsuccessfully applied for a post as a consultant anaesthetist, an Equality Tribunal has found. Dr Padraig Sheeran claimed that HSE West discriminated against him on the grounds of marital status. He said he was interviewed in October 1999 for the post in University [...]
Roughly 50,000 patients have been treated in Vhi SwiftCare Clinics since the first clinic opened two years ago. The new clinic in Swords, Vhi’s third, was opened by the Minister for Health last week and is already recording up to 40 patients a day. But, Dr Stan Natin, a north Dublin GP, told Irish Medical [...]
Public hospitals could face a crisis in December as a result of the Health Service Executive’s (HSE’s) non-provision of locum cover, as NCHDs are threatening to use all their annual leave before the end of the year, Irish Medical Times understands. Several NCHDs who are serving on six-month posts in hospitals where they will not [...]
The number of medical card patients aged 70 years and over has steadily increased, with nearly 9,000 more people in this age bracket last year than the year before. The latest statistics from the Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS) show that there were 336,203 people aged 70 years and over in December 2006. This compares [...]
Allowing the drug industry to supply information on prescription medicines direct to patients in Europe will have serious implications for health, according to health experts in New Zealand. The warning comes as the European parliament is considering allowing the drug industry to have a greater role in providing information to patients, with no restriction on [...]
Many of the doctors who have volunteered for the Medical Council’s Professional Practice Review Pilot Project have not completed the process, and the council is urging them to do so before the cut-off date of 4 November. Those who do not return forms by the date will lose their five-year exemption from the statutory process, [...]
Part of a medical centre in Ballinasloe is to be turned into a pharmacy after the applicant for the proposed development appealed to An Bord Pleanála. Dr Eugene O’Beirne applied to Ballinasloe Town Council for permission to make the change to the centre at Pollboy townland in the County Galway town. However, the local authority [...]
Ireland could increase organ donor numbers by 50 per cent if it had a full-time organ coordinator in every hospital, the CEO of the Irish Kidney Association has told Irish Medical Times. Mr Mark Murphy said that having a fully-trained donor coordinator could dramatically increase the numbers of donors in Ireland’s hospitals, especially in under-performing [...]
The BCG vaccine may not be available until January 2008 due to “regulatory difficulties” with the Danish manufacturer of the vaccine, the Health Service Executive (HSE) has confirmed. “This is a Europe-wide problem as the manufacturer in question is the only company which supplies the vaccine to the European Market. The HSE is in regular [...]
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