Gary Culliton reports on HIQA’s Health Technology Assessment Directorate, which is charged with establising the cost-effectiveness of new public initiatives. A Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is about more than deciding whether a programme is cost-effective. HIQA’s cervical cancer HTA recently concluded that vaccinating all 12-year-old girls against HPV, would cost about €12m per year. The [...]
Stroke patients in Tallaght Hospital are now receiving treatment at the hands of a remote presence (RP7) robot doctor currently on trial in the hospital. This is the first of its kind in Ireland. The RP7 device would be used primarily in the accident and emergency department of the hospital. The robot would allow stroke [...]
A total of 12 to 14 people who have been subject to gastric banding procedures in Leeds, Belgium, London and at Dublin’s Advanced Cosmetic Surgery (ACS, which is now in liquidation) now have to get treatment at Dublin’s Weight Management Clinic in St Columcille’s Hospital, Loughlinstown, as there is not enough access to such surgery [...]
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children is to review the proposed move of the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) to a site adjacent to the planned prison site at Thorton Hall, north Dublin. A delegation from the Committee inspected the Thornton Hall site on Tuesday, following an appeal from the Central Mental Hospital Carers [...]
Dr Peter Cantillon of the Department of General Practice in NUI Galway has been selected for one of five national awards. Dr Cantillon will be honoured by the National Academy for the Integration of Research & Teaching and Learning (NAIRTL) in its new programme of awards honouring exemplary teachers who are also innovative researchers in [...]
The fees payable to GPs for participating in Ireland’s cervical screening programme, which is expected to begin in the autumn, did not form part of the discussions between the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) and the National Cancer Screening Service (NCSS). Dr Martin Daly, President of the IMO and former Chairman of its GP Committee, told [...]
Another cancer nightmare looms for Health Minister Harney: the look-back inquiry into radiology in the north east has established that treatment was delayed in up to a dozen further cases of lung cancer, where the disease was not spotted on an x-ray. The inquiry is currently assessing the extent of harm caused by months of [...]
A planning application for new medical centre and pharmacy on the Churchtown Road in Dublin 14 has been submitted to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. The applicants for the development, which would be located at the Texaco service station, are listed by the local authority as M Cox, R Power, A Mehtar and M Mehigan. The [...]
An attempt to get planning permission for a medical centre and pharmacy in Dublin 4 has failed, but has been appealed to An Bord Pleanála. The applicants — James Byrne, Michael McElligot, Peter Crowley and Neill Hughes — asked Dublin City Council for permission to demolish buildings to the rear of 10, 11 and 12 [...]
Public health doctors in Ireland and around the world will be delighted at the news that two of the world’s richest men are investing a huge sum of money into smoking cessation in a bid to cut smoking rates around the world. Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor and businessman Michael Bloomberg are [...]
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