A new breast cancer surgery service will open in six weeks’ time at Dublin’s Beacon Hospital and aims to operate as a ‘hub’ for a network of private Irish cancer centres. The breast surgery service will augment a ‘comprehensive cancer care service’ which has been operating at Beacon for the last year, employing 60 staff, [...]
Another pharmacist has been granted an injunction from the High Court to stop the HSE from changing his contract, the cause of a six-month dispute between both parties. The Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) has welcomed the decision, granted to pharmacist Mr Joseph Haire. “The Courts have now issued two separate injunctions against the HSE to [...]
The Billy Malawi Project, set up as a memorial for 25-year-old Billy Riordan, who drowned in Lake Malawi, Central Africa in 1999, is looking for GPs to volunteer in its primary care clinic in Cape Maclear, Malawi. The doctors are needed to support existing nursing and medical staff in the delivery of primary care. For [...]
The Health Research Board is holding a conference entitled ‘Working Together to Improve People’s Health’, aimed at researchers, policy makers and people working in the health services on 11 November in Dublin Castle. The conference will discuss the best approach to setting national priorities for health research. For more information and to register, contact Brian [...]
If you have been part of a development in healthcare that is a good example of excellence and innovation, or you know of a project or person within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industries that deserves recognition, it’s time to let us know. Irish Medical Times is now accepting entries for the 2008 Irish Healthcare Awards. [...]
Initiatives costing less than €1 million per annum could save millions of euro spent on reactive health and legal services for people with epilepsy. By increasing the numbers of specialist nurses from four to 14, and providing basic GP training in each HSE region, people with epilepsy ‘could see real progress in their lives’, said [...]
A lack of consultant microbiologists means that those working in the field are under extra pressure dealing with queries from hospitals without adequate microbiology services, according to Dr Niamh O’Sullivan of the Irish Society of Clinical Microbiologists. “Consultants or infection control nurses are calling microbiologists in other hospitals and hoping that they have time to [...]
Emer Mullins on new guidelines for doctors in the UK, which come into effect next week, on how to communicate effectively with patients. New guidelines from Britain’s General Medical Council (GMC) on doctors communicating effectively with patients about their condition and treatment which come into effect on June 2, 2008 have been welcomed by the [...]
Cases of measles in Italy are on the rise but the country is not yet in the grip of an outbreak, a public health expert told ANSA news agency. ‘’It’s true that since 2006, there has been a certain revival but we are not in a dangerous or emergency situation,’’ Pietro Crovari from Genoa University [...]
Researchers have shown that a third of children who stay in a paediatric intensive care unit have delusional memories, including vivid and frightening hallucinations that put them at high risk of post-traumatic stress disorder. They said children who received opiates or benzo-diazepines for more than two days were five times more likely to report delusions [...]
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