People may be sick of reading about the problems in the health service – especially, of late, problems in women’s health services – but for the medical personnel trying to wade through the problems and simply do their job every day, it can be even worse. A lot depends on attitude, and many Irish doctors [...]
Specific details contained in three planning applications for co-located hospitals, which were submitted by Beacon Medical Limited, have been published by local authorities. At the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Dooradoyle, the company has applied to Limerick County Council for permission to build a six- and seven-storey over-basement private hospital. It will have 183 beds, 175 [...]
A child or adolescent was admitted to an adult psychiatric facility every two days, on average, between the beginning of November 2006 and the end of December last year. Why is this happening? The answer is simply because there are not enough child and adolescent mental health inpatient beds. The Mental Health Commission made its [...]
Temple Street Hospital has been granted permission to build a new two-storey outpatients clinic, but first it will have to pay almost €153,000 to Dublin City Council before it can begin construction. The hospital applied to the local authority for planning permission in November last year and it was granted earlier this month. The temporary [...]
Forty-two radiographers at University College Hospital, Galway, should receive more money for each scannogram they do on a patient, the Labour Court has said. The Services Industrial Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU) represented the workers and argued that the radiographers should receive four payments per patient instead of one. The union said this was the [...]
In September 2005, two women were among a number of work colleagues who attended a post-conference dinner at a venue in Sligo. They sat opposite each other at a long table at which there were a number of other fellow employees. During the course of the evening, the two women engaged in conversation over dinner, [...]
The new test for breast cancer developed in St Vincent’s University Hospital and UCD in Dublin may spare thousands of women the often needless trauma and expense of chemotherapy. According to Dr Patrick Corley, from Cancer Research Ireland, which part-funded the research begun by Prof Joe Duffy of St Vincent’s in the 1990s, it is [...]
New research from the US has found that cancer doctors, given the opportunity, are highly unlikely to express empathy to patients, suggesting that they can do more to improve quality of life for the people they treat. And it has now been acknowledged that the problem is a real danger here in Ireland, according to [...]
The number of child and adolescent psychiatric inpatient beds is in the process of being expanded from 12 to 70, the Health Service Executive has said. The lack of such inpatient beds has been a contentious issue because, as a result, children and adolescents are frequently admitted to adult inpatient mental health facilities. The most [...]
Less than a third of Irish women know a vaccine that prevents cervical cancer exists, according to Dr Tracey Murray, medical spokesperson with the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA). Dr Murray was speaking during a campaign to raise awareness of the disease, which kills about 73 women a year in Ireland. “Recent research showed that [...]
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