The failure to create an integrated primary care system and link GPs to outpatient departments is one reason public patients wait for a long time to see a consultant, it has been claimed. Prof Richard Layte of the Economic and Social Research Institute said this means a lot of conditions that are dealt with at [...]
More psychiatric patients had their involuntary detention revoked in October, before a tribunal hearing into their case, than in any month since the Mental Health Act came into force in November 2006. The latest figures from the Mental Health Commission show that 141 patients had their detentions revoked in October in advance of the mental [...]
A planning application by the Galway Hospice Foundation Limited has been declared invalid by the city’s council. The hospice applied to the local authority for outline permission for a two storey over basement extension at its facility, which is located just off the Dublin Road in the city. However, this was declared invalid late in [...]
Attempts are being made to broker an agreement that would allow consultants to be recruited while common contract talks are ongoing, the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has said. Mr Fintan Hourihan, IMO Director of Industrial Relations, said any such arrangement would have to ensure that consultants appointed in this manner could subsequently avail of whatever [...]
The Irish Medical Organisation Financial Services (IMOFS) section is trying to arrange the purchase of a building worth €13.8 million in Berlin, so its members can invest in it for their pensions. The exact address of the new office property has not been revealed, although the tenant there had an annual turnover of €15.8 billion [...]
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has recently told the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) that there is still no draft GP contract ready for negotiations, Dr Martin Daly has said. The IMO GP Committee Chairman made the statement after remarks made by the Minister for Health, Mary Harney, in a written response to a parliamentary question [...]
About 1100 nursing staff at Cork University Hospital (CUH) have won a Labour Court recommendation that their union’s proposals on parental leave should be accepted by the Health Service Executive (HSE). Under the existing scheme, when the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) took the issue to the third party body, nurses could only claim parental leave [...]
A European Commission report on the availability of services for the genetic screening of embryos has criticised the lack of such facilities in Ireland, and revealed that Irish fertility clinics fear prosecution for referring patients abroad in these cases. The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) surveyed 53 clinics across Europe to determine the standards [...]
I set out to summarise some of the proceedings of the recent American College of Surgeons meeting in New Orleans, and started by describing the New Orleans venue, in particular – the aftermath of hurricane Katrina two years later. This took on a life if its own and I now return to the business of [...]
The Minister for Health has sent a stern warning to the Health Service Executive (HSE) with regard to managing its 2008 budget. The Department of Health has allocated €14.9 billion to the HSE for its 2008 budget. Asked by Irish Medical Times if she would like to see measures implemented to identify overspending earlier in [...]
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