The Health Service Executive Employers Agency (HSE EA) has said a Labour Court ruling on overtime helps its position on rosters in the NCHD contract talks. Mr Brendan Mulligan, Assistant Chief Executive Officer in Industrial Relations with the Agency said: “It certainly helps our contract talks and it will certainly help us with whatever shift [...]
A huge inpatient building at St Vincent’s University Hospital has been given planning permission by Dublin City Council, in the face of objections from local residents. The hospital was given permission for an eight-storey building, five storeys of which will contain an aggregate of 100 inpatient beds. Another floor will house 20 day-ward beds and [...]
The Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) is prepared to continue consultant contract talks despite reports that management has called this week “crunch week”. IHCA Secretary General Mr Finbarr Fitzpatrick told Irish Medical Times that while the Association urgently wants an agreed contract, it is prepared to continue talks until a a satisfactory agreement can be [...]
The Irish Medical Organisation may be on the brink of pulling out of NCHD contract talks with the National Implementation Group (NIG), which is responsible for implementing the European Working Time Directive (EWTD). It has also emerged that, in such an eventuality, the union may advise NCHD members to work no more than the 56 [...]
A lack of funding is still hindering progress at a national level regarding methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection rates. As the HSE launched a public information campaign last week to promote the importance of hand hygiene in preventing hospital-acquired infections, a HSE spokesperson could not confirm how many of the 52 additional infection-control staff promised [...]
Leading scientist Prof Robert Winston- best known for his BBC TV series The Human Body and for his work in the ‘70s on IVF treatment- will speak at a special lecture in Trinity College Dublin on ageing and reproduction on January 29, entitled ‘Too Old to Reproduce?’ Prof Winston is currently working on transferring germ [...]
The first-ever health research roundtable was launched this week by the Chief Executive of the Health Service Executive, Prof Brendan Drumm. The Health Research Roundtable will take place this week at The Wilton Room, IDA Ireland, from 4-7 p.m and is hosted by the Health Research Board, the Industrial Development Association and Prospectus- a strategy [...]
As a non-clinical partner in a general practice, I seem to have a slightly different perspective on how we should deal with patients who don’t settle their bill directly after their consultation. Maybe it’s a result of a decade in a more commercial environment, or maybe it’s just me, but I can’t help feeling somewhat [...]
The national office charged with tackling suicide must do so without additional funding this year. Last Wednesday, the Health Service Executive told the National Office for Suicide Prevention (NOSP) that it must make do with €4.5 million, the same amount of funding it received during 2007. A 2006 Oireachtas report on the high level of [...]
Although there have been developments in terms of establishing surveillance programmes to reduce the numbers of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in Irish hospitals, a lack of resources and a paucity of laboratory staff hinder the amount of progress that can be made at a national level. Ireland is one of the few EU countries [...]
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