Nurses in palliative home care teams in Galway help to raise funds that pay their salary, the Irish Hospice Foundation has revealed. Mr Eugene Murray, Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation, explained that the 25 home nurses based in Galway are funded solely by contributions and fund raising. As well as providing the nurses’ salaries, [...]
The number of involuntarily detained psychiatric patients who had their status revoked before a mental health tribunal hearing into their case, has fallen to its lowest point in at least 15 months. Figures for March 2008 show just 91 such patients had their involuntarily detained status revoked by a consultant psychiatrist before the tribunal into [...]
Many interns are working without proper or adequate training, according to the Medical Council’s new review of undergraduate medical training. “Interns are sometimes being asked to act ‘above grade’, at a level that is not appropriate for a new and inexperienced doctor,” states the Council. “There are instances in which interns are called upon to [...]
Systems to treat victims of sexual assault rely too heavily on GPs and are ‘in danger of falling apart’, according to Dr Ronan Boland, head of the IMO General Practitioners’ Committee. The HSE’s reliance on GPs to help people in the aftermath of an assault indicates ‘a piecemeal approach’ to how care systems are put [...]
The trade union representing public health nurses has received a positive result from a Labour Court case taken on the nurses’ behalf. The Irish Nurses Organis-ation (INO) took a case claiming that public health nurses, who are on call for off-shore islands where there is no doctor, should be given a responsibility allowance. The union [...]
Nearly 10,000 children are on a waiting list in the Health Service Executive South to be given a vaccine that will protect them against tuberculosis. The figure was revealed at the latest meeting of the HSE South’s Regional Health Forum, after two councillors asked questions about it. In a reply, Mr Pat Healy, Assistant National [...]
Any claim that there will not be a facility for a doctor in Ireland to discuss a cervical cancer smear with the person interpreting it in the USA is simply not true, the National Cancer Screening Service (NCSS) has said. “A multidisciplinary team approach as and when required is clearly a critical component of a [...]
The Department of Health’s non-intervention in visa rights for non-EU doctors working in Ireland has forced negotiators to go directly to the Department of Justice. The current visa system has created difficulties for a cohort of doctors that make up ‘the backbone of the medical system’, according to Dr Syed Jaffrey, Chairman of the IMO [...]
Ed Madden BL on a recent case in which the Supreme Court considered whether a consultant could validly sign a patient’s renewal order under Section 15 of the Mental Health Act, 2001 In 1998, MM developed a dangerous schizophrenic condition involving various delusions which led him to commit criminal acts. In May of that year, [...]
The National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) has said it is going to submit a planning application today for a new 235-bed facility in Dún Laoghaire. The new hospital, which will be situated on the NRH’s current campus on Rochestown Avenue, will cost €200 million to develop, according to that institution. The NRH said the development would, [...]
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