Elderly and mentally-ill patients are suffering ‘petty discrimination’ in getting access to nursing homes, a prominent psychiatrist has told the Irish Medical Organisation’s Annual General Meeting. Dr Siobhan Barry said that while other inpatients in general hospitals can avail of delayed discharge initiatives and get into nursing homes, this is not the case for older [...]
Any attempt by employers to ‘buy out’ junior doctors’ training will be resisted, the Irish Medical Organisation has said. The Chairman of the union’s Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Committee, Dr John Morris, said the IMO ‘won’t tolerate’ any attempts at offering ‘unreasonable working patterns for short-term financial gain’. He said that the aim of the IMO [...]
A pioneering paper was presented at last week’s meeting, in Washington, DC of the Society of Interventional Radiology by Dr John Moriarty, Specialist Registrar in Dublin’s Mater Hospital. His colleague Dr Leo Lawler was the lead author of the paper. The Mater is the only place in the country and one of a few places [...]
On 9 August 2006, a medical practitioner was committed for trial on an indictment which contained four counts that he indecently assaulted three women contrary to section 13(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 1956. The offences were alleged to have been committed at various times between 1990 and 2000. The women were all patients of [...]
Fine Gael has set up a new policy commission called ‘Transforming Irish Public Services’, party leader Enda Kenny has announced. He said the priority for the group will be to look at ways of introducing a universal healthcare system for Ireland. Former FG leader Alan Dukes will head the commission, whose members include Galway consultant [...]
The Garda Síochána has been criticised for its failure to enforce legislation that protects doctors from assaults. Consultant psychiatrist, Dr Siobhán Barry, told the Irish Medical Organisation’s Annual General Meeting in Killarney that Section 185 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 obliges the Gardaí to prosecute in circumstances where medics are physically or verbally assaulted. [...]
The compensation scheme available to nurses who are injured due to violence in the workplace could be rolled out to other professionals in the health service, the Health Service Executive Employers Agency has said. Mr Brendan Mulligan, Assistant Chief Executive Officer in Industrial Relations for the organisation, told Irish Medical Times that he did not [...]
Fine Gael Health spokes-man Dr James Reilly intends to end his involvement in a proposed primary care centre in Swords, if and when planning permission comes through, because he ‘does not wish to be seen to have a conflict of interest’. Dr Reilly said that as his party’s front-bench spokesman, he could not call for [...]
Sandra Ryan reports on the lack of epilepsy services in Ireland and gets the expert view on what is needed to improve the situation. Epilepsy services in Ireland, and neurology services in the country generally, are among the worst in the EU. Ten years after the launch in Dublin of the Global Campaign Against Epilepsy, [...]
Community nurses in Lincolnshire are set to have access to laptops which will allow them access patients’ records during their visits The nurses are set to get rugged wireless laptops in one of the largest deployments yet of mobile technology to staff working outside of hospitals. In the first phase of this five-year project, 140 [...]
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