Gary Culliton examines how the NTPF is tackling one of the biggest issues in relation to waiting lists: getting the initial consultation The Galway Clinic has been contracted to carry out a further 2,000 outpatient consultations – including ENT and maxillofacial work, as well in as the speciality areas where it has previously done work [...]
Touchstone Healthcare’s plans for a five-storey primary care building in Carlow town have been granted planning permission, although the decision has been appealed to An Bord Pleanála. The application was submitted to Carlow Town Council in August last year and was granted permission last month. However, there were 37 conditions attached to the decision. Six [...]
Ian McGuinness outlines some how doctors are providing treatments and diagnostics at a considerable financial loss to themselves Every year, details of what GPs earn via the Primary Care Reimbursement Service (formerly the GMS) are published — and rightly so, given that this is public money. However, quite often the details give the impression that [...]
The Data Protection Com-missioner should conduct an audit of security measures in place to protect private information given by people to State bodies, after a laptop containing personal information on over 170,000 people who have donated blood to the Irish Blood Transfusion Service was stolen on a street in New York earlier this month, said [...]
A request for the Govern-ment to fund research in the UK aimed at helping people in Ireland with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy has been denied, as the Irish State cannot fund research abroad, according to Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Jimmy Devins. Deputy Joe McHugh (FG- Donegal North East) said the families [...]
The Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Cowen, told Labour health spokesperson Deputy Jan O’Sullivan last week (Lab-Limerick East) that progress on the Government’s hospital co-location project was continuing. Waterford Regional Hospital, Cork University Hospital, Limerick Regional Hospital, Sligo Regional Hospital, Beaumont Hospital and St James’s Hospital were all working towards finalising the project agreements for [...]
A survey of 153 teenagers aged between 14-19 in the UK has revealed that the most important health issues among more than 70 per cent are body odour, self-esteem, acne/spots, nutrition/diet and contraception. Young people do not view alcohol, drugs or smoking cigarettes as major health concerns, with around half of respondents viewing each of [...]
A survey published in the Medical Journal of Australia found that some two-thirds of more than 4,200 workers aged between 45 and 64 had a medical condition. It showed that managers are less likely to have cancer, while shop assistants have a greater chance of suffering back pain and nurses have a higher rate of [...]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has appointed its first global envoy for malaria control, Ray Chambers. “We are at a pivotal moment in the fight against malaria,” said Dr Margaret Chan, WHO’s Director-General. “We now have the tools to stop malaria, including to quickly reduce child deaths. Ray Chambers has the passion, experience and commitment [...]
Obesity needs to be tackled in the same way as climate change, a top nutritional scientist has said. BBC News reported that the chairman of the International Obesity Taskforce wants world leaders to agree a global pact to ensure that everyone is fed healthy food. Professor Philip James said the challenge of obesity was so [...]
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