Doctors who are planning to leave Ireland this summer for career purposes have been encouraged to apply to the HSE for a career break, in order to protect their pension rights. The Irish Medical Organisation said that any doctor who is going to work abroad but who intends to return to the State should do [...]
The President Elect of the Irish Medical Organisation has warned that there are still significant difficulties in recruiting appropriately qualified doctors from abroad to work in general practice in the Republic. Referring to the failure by the Health Service Executive to increase the number of GP trainee places in the State this year from 121 [...]
The Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) has welcomed the decision of the High Court to grant an injunction preventing the Health Service Executive (HSE) from reducing drug payments to Limerick pharmacist Niall O’Sullivan. Mr O’Sullivan took the action as he believes the HSE’s plans to cut payments will ‘decimate’ his business and because he and the [...]
A corporate troubleshooter has launched a scathing attack on the way the Health Service Executive is run, saying the HSE needs to quadruple the salary of its Chief Executive if the problems of the Irish health system are to be solved. After the exposure of recent HSE failings, strong medicine is needed, according to Irish-born [...]
Health professionals who should have been working as part of primary care teams may emigrate and be lost by the State, the Irish Medical Organisation has warned. Dr Martin Daly, Chairman of the union’s GP Committee, said: “There is a steady supply of graduates who were given the impression that there would be employment in [...]
Thirteen additional full medical cards were issued last month for every extra doctor-only card that was granted, it has emerged. There were 8,111 new full cards issued between 1 February and 1 March this year, in comparison to 616 additional doctor-only cards in the same period. This brought the number of full medical card holders [...]
Planning permission was last week granted for a medical centre of approx 460sq m in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. The medical centre is located at first-floor level in Bennett Developments’ extensive new mixed-use urban and retail quarter. ‘The Well’ is the confirmed operator for the same developer’s Sandyford clinic, and Bennett is in discussions with a [...]
A decision by Kilkenny County Council to grant planning permission to a Dr Eugene O’Kelly for a primary healthcare building in Thomastown has been appealed. Dr O’Kelly applied to the local authority late last year for permission to demolish a building formerly used as a supermarket on Marsh’s Road in the town. Dr O’Kelly wanted [...]
The co-author of a controversial study on the effect of patients’ travel distances to hospital on their outcomes will speak at this weekend’s IMO AGM, at the scientific session entitled ‘Death by stealth — the quiet demise of secondary care in Ireland’. Janette Turner, who was a co-author of the study and who is a [...]
‘Infection & Immunity’ and ‘Food & Health’ will be the focus for discussion at this year’s 2nd College of Medicine & Health Joint UCC/Cork University Teaching Hospitals Health Research Day, which takes place on Friday, 6 June 2008 in Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, UCC. The conference aims to stimulate co-operation across disciplines and professions, between [...]
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