A new study shows that terminally-ill patients prefer their doctors to discuss end-of-life care with them and to be truthful about what the future holds. It may be one of the most difficult things for a doctor to have to do, but a new study shows that terminally-ill patients prefer their doctors to discuss end-of-life [...]
Sandra Ryan writes that there is no legal framework regulating IVF in Ireland and it means doctors are working in a very uncertain environment. Of all the grey areas in the Irish health service, the lack of concrete legislation and rules surrounding IVF and fertility treatment is probably the most contentious. The fact that the [...]
There has been a significant rise in prescriptions of drugs such as Valium (diazepam, up by a fifth) and Xanax (alprazolam, up by 42 per cent) in the five years since the landmark Benzodazapine Report called for a ‘considerable reduction’ in use of such drugs. Across-the-board benzodiazepine use has been rising inexorably, State drug scheme [...]
Health experts from 11 British universities have written an open letter to Health Secretary Alan Johnson, slamming what they dubbed ‘pitifully low’ funding for research into dementia. They warned the NHS would not survive the next 20 years unless funding for dementia improved. Dementia care currently costs the UK economy more than £17 billion, but [...]
Four women from the Republic of Ireland have been notified that the treatment they received at Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry, County Armagh, is being reviewed. The Southern Health and Social Care Trust acknowledged last week that it is reviewing the cases of 319 women who attended the County Armagh hospital between 31 December 2007 [...]
Major innovations are needed in the pre-hospital care of patients with heart attacks, a public health consultant told Irish Medical Times. Dr Siobhan Jennings said GP-administered thrombolysis needs to be happening in more places than Donegal and West Galway. “We need to get better at pre-hospital triage, diagnosis and treatment. I would foresee – and [...]
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent UK Care Standards Tribunal case in which medical evidence established that an applicant for inclusion on the Register of Social Workers was unfit to work due to longstanding mental health problems. On 5 March 2005 Paul Thomas Phillips submitted an application to the General Social Care Council to [...]
The Venus Compression Therapy Clinic, which had been run from the Orthopaedic Hospital in Clontarf, may be run in future from a different location — according to the doctor who was in charge of the clinic when it closed last year. Dr Terence Hynes told Irish Medical Times that he had written to both Minister [...]
The country’s largest provider of intellectual disability services, St Michael’s House in Dublin, has criticised the Health Service Executive (HSE) for reducing their funding by €2 million since 2003, meaning their waiting lists are growing and they are unable to accept referrals. However, the HSE has denied that the funding for disability services is inadequate. [...]
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has promised to have over 500 primary care teams in place by the end of next year, according to Chief Executive Officer Prof Brendan Drumm. He said that the teams, where it is planned patients will get about 90 per cent of their care, are ’taking hold’. “Ninety-seven are in [...]
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