Touchstone Healthcare’s initiative to build a primary care centre in Tipperary has run into planning difficulties, with appeals being made against Thurles Town Council’s decision to grant permission for the proposed development. While one appeal was declared invalid by An Bord Pleanála, three valid appeals were lodged, one of which was from Touchstone itself. The [...]
Prof Tom Gorey introduced Tan Sri Datuk Dr Ismail Merican (the titles preceeding the ‘Dr’ are royal) as an ideal role model for the health sciences graduates of today, as he received the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland’s highest accolade, the Honorary Fellowship of the RCSI. The Director General of the Malaysian Health Department, [...]
Preparations are continuing for the construction of a new 20-bed in-patient psychiatric facility for children and adolescents in Galway. The HSE is now looking for a company or companies to build the facility at Merlin Park Hospital in the city. The centre will include a children’s in-patient unit, an adolescent in-patient unit, a therapies unit [...]
Between €2.233 million and €2.386 million in salaries is being paid to the chief executive officers of the 16 agencies that are under the control of the Department of Health. Figures released by the Department show that the largest salary is paid to the CEO of the Health Service Executive, who receives almost €370,000 per [...]
Nearly €711 million extra was spent on health services in this country in the first six months of this year when compared to the same period in 2007, according to Government figures. The statistics show that just over €6.809 billion was spent on the health sector between 1 January 2008 and 30 June this year. [...]
Round one in the Government’s ‘bonfire of the quangos’ will mean a major shakeup within the Department of Health. The National Cancer Screening Service Board and the National Cancer Registry of Ireland, along with a number of other cancer quangos, are to be subsumed into the HSE under Prof Tom Keane’s National Cancer Control Programme. [...]
Prof William Hall from the UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science, and Director of the Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases, has been elected to the board of The Atlantic Philanthropies. The Atlantic Philanthropies are dedicated to tackling problems in the areas of ageing, disadvantaged children and youth, population health, and reconciliation and human [...]
Vhi Healthcare is now examining ‘various other sources of funding, including but not limited to reinsurance’, as last week’s Supreme Court risk equalisation (RE) decision dealt a body blow to the insurer’s solvency situation. The VHI Amendment Act stipulates that Vhi Healthcare should obtain an insurance licence and be regulated by the Financial Regulator with [...]
Beacon Medical Group’s co-located hospital at the Mid-West Regional in Limerick is the first in the country to get a final grant of planning permission, after two appeals to An Bord Pleanála – one involving Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins – were both deemed invalid. However, after months of high-stakes talks, the whole future of [...]
The world’s most famous heart surgeon, Michael E. DeBakey, died this month aged ninety-nine. Dr DeBakey’s career spanned seventy years, sixty of which he spent at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, where he passed away on July 11. He was recognised as the father of cardiovascular surgery whose pioneering spirit earned him several firsts [...]
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