According to the latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulation the Irish Medical Times average net circulation has risen to over 7,000. The average net circulation of the paper for the audit period July 1 2007 – June 30 was 7,022. Irish Medical News has failed to register a circulation figure for the period [...]
Two of every three GPs (66%) see increasing GP training as the way to solve Ireland’s growing shortage of general practitioners. That option was by far the most popular one with the next most popular being ‘part-time flexibility or job-sharing’, which was cited by 21 per cent of doctors surveyed. The survey was conducted in [...]
General practitioners have a lower opinion of the Minister for Health and Children than they did this time last year — according to an exclusive new poll conducted by Irish Medical Times. The poll — which was conducted last month and involved a ten-minute interview with 90 general practitioners from across the country — found [...]
Only one in twenty doctors think Prof Brendan Drumm has been good for the health service, while nearly two in every three believe his performance as Chief Executive has been either ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’ in the last year. In the survey of general practitioners carried out last month, Prof Drumm has lost the support [...]
Despite the regular complaints from GPs, it would seem that in the main, there is generally very good communication between general practitioners and hospitals, according to the Irish Medical Times survey. Only two per cent rated their communication as ‘very poor’ and another ten per cent rated it as ‘poor’. But the vast majority were [...]
The current moves to transfer some services and the management of several chronic diseases from acute hospitals into primary care still have to win the support and/or understanding of most general practitioners. In the IMT survey, 45 per cent said they supported such moves but almost a quarter (23%) were opposed, while another third (32%) [...]
The HSE has announced that the National Research Centre for the Protection of Older People is expected to be operational by September. The Centre, which is part of the Elder Abuse Programme, will be located within the Department of Nursing Studies in University College Dublin. Its establishment was one of the main recommendations of the [...]
A five-storey building containing oncology and other medical services at the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork has been granted planning permission. Cork City Council gave permission for the project last month. The plans show that one level of the new building is to contain an oncology department with two linear accelerators, six treatment rooms and [...]
An extra 8,200 patients have been added to medical card lists in just one month. The latest figures from the Primary Care Reimbursement Service (formerly the General Medical Services Payments Board) show that the vast majority of these additional patients received a full medical card as opposed to a doctor only card. While the former [...]
Planning permission for a cancer support unit for St Vincent’s University Hospital patients is being opposed by Dublin 4 residents. Two local residents have appealed Dublin City Council’s decision to grant permission, with conditions, to the hospital for the facility at 85 Nutley Lane. The facility, which provides counselling and relaxation therapies, was operating without [...]
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