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News: August 2008

Co-location credit crunch

Gary Culliton | 29 August 2008 | Hospital Medicine

The HSE will sign Project Agreements (PAs) to build and run two co-located hospitals this week – one at Waterford and one at St James’s in Dublin. Following considerable wrangling, bonds totalling €40m will now be posted by the two... Read more

IMT hits top with 7,022 docs

Terence Cosgrave | 29 August 2008 | Research and Education

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... Read more

Training key to GP shortage

28 August 2008 | General Practice

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’,... Read more

Harney sinks in GP poll on performance

Terence Cosgrave | 28 August 2008 | General Practice

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... Read more

Opinion of Drumm's performance falls

28 August 2008 | General Practice

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... Read more

Communications between GPs and hospitals mostly rated good

28 August 2008 | General Practice

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... Read more

GPs still unsure about transfers to primary care

28 August 2008 | General Practice

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... Read more

National elderly research centre to be operational in September

Mary Anne Kenny | 27 August 2008 | Research and Education

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... Read more

Oncology unit gets planning approval

Ian McGuinness | 27 August 2008 | Public Health

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... Read more

8,200 added to medical card list

Ian McGuinness | 27 August 2008 | Public Health

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... Read more

St Vincent's cancer unit opposed by Dublin 4 residents

Ian McGuinness | 27 August 2008 | Planning and Development

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... Read more

PSA screening not advised for over-75s

27 August 2008 | Public Health

A major US task force on prostate cancer has recommended against PSA screening for men over the age of 75. The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), updating its 2002 report, concluded that there was insufficient scientific evidence to recommend... Read more

Community nursing unit opens in Cork

27 August 2008 | Hospital Medicine

Construction has begun on a 50-bed Community Nursing Unit at St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital in Cork. The Unit is one of four proposed facilities that will provide public long-stay, therapeutic, rehabilitative and medical care for older people. The first of... Read more

Galway meeting a success

Gary Culliton | 27 August 2008 | Research and Education

Professor Aviva Tolkovski from the University of Cambridge presented a paper on the mechanisms of neurodegeneration at the second National Meeting of Neuroscience Ireland at NUI Galway. The conference also looked at strategies to promote regeneration of neurons, which may... Read more

North-east GPs in profit

Ian McGuinness | 26 August 2008 |

The company behind the north east’s GP out of hours co-operative has just stated that it made a post-tax profit of nearly €714,000 last year. North East Doctor On Call Limited recently lodged documents with the Companies Registration Office which... Read more

Beacon gets care accreditation

Gary Culliton | 26 August 2008 | Hospital Medicine

Beacon Dermatology has been awarded Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCI) in recognition of the clinic’s “commitment to providing excellence in safety standards and quality care,” the firm said. Beacon Dermatology is a consultant-led dermatology clinic offering an extensive range of... Read more

HSE launches 2007 drug misuse report

Gary Culliton | 26 August 2008 | Public Health

The Health Service Executive South has published its seventh annual ‘Overview of Drug Misuse’ report (2007), which covers the five counties of the south-east region: Waterford, Wexford, Carlow, Kilkenny and South Tipperary. The report gives a breakdown of alcohol and... Read more

Galway hosts Ireland's largest surgical conference

Gary Culliton | 26 August 2008 | Research and Education, Research and Education

NUI Galway’s Department of Surgery will host the largest surgical conference in Ireland, the 33rd Sir Peter Freyer Memorial Lecture and Surgical Symposium on 5-6 September 2008. Dr Ernest E. Moore, from Denver General Hospital, will deliver the Memorial Lecture... Read more

Heroin users start drugs at 12 years old - but parents are using as well

Ian McGuinness | 23 August 2008 | Public Health

The average age at which opiate dependent teenagers tried any illegal drug was just over 12 years, according to a new study carried out among patients at the Drug Treatment Centre Board. Eighty-three per cent cited cannabis as the first... Read more

Cervical cancer vaccine in doubt

Greg Baxter | 21 August 2008 | Foreign News

New research has thrown doubt on the effectiveness of introducing a large-scale vaccination programme for cervical cancer. Prophylactic vaccines for human papillomavirus types 16 and 18 (HPV-16 and HPV-18) may not provide life-long immunity, and their overall effect on the... Read more

Breast Cancers could be missed in Limerick

Greg Baxter | 20 August 2008 | Health Management

Many breast cancers could be missed in Limerick while women await the roll-out of BreastCheck there, according to Limerick East TD Kieran O’Donnell (FG). According to the Institute of Public Health in Ireland, Limerick at had the lowest life expectancy... Read more

Obituary: Dr Tony Craig — GP and surgeon

20 August 2008 | Obituary

Tony Craig was born and reared in Dublin. He was educated at Armagh Road and Templeogue College. He studied Medicine at RCSI on St Stephen’s Green and qualified in 1979. He interned at the Richmond Hospital and from there, he... Read more

Ireland to host Down Syndrome Congress

Terence Cosgrave | 19 August 2008 |

Ireland has been chosen to host the 10th World Down Syndrome Congress next year. The event will run across four days from August 19 to August 22 and is expected to attract over 2,000 delegates from across the globe. The... Read more

Irish students studying medicine abroad have doubled

Terence Cosgrave | 18 August 2008 | Research and Education

The numbers of Irish students studying medicine abroad has more than doubled in the last five years, according to new figures released this month. A total of 523 Irish students were studying medicine in the UK in the 2006/2007 academic... Read more

International cancer expert has 'near-death' experience

Terence Cosgrave | 15 August 2008 | Hospital Medicine

An international cancer expert who was speaking at meetings in Dublin and Cork had what was described as a 'near-death' experience when the aeroplane on which he was flying from Dublin to Cork had to return to Dublin after it... Read more

Up to 10% of staff absent

Gary Culliton | 15 August 2008 | Health Management

New figures from 23 hospitals obtained by Irish Medical Times show overall absenteeism rates of between seven and eight per cent in some hospitals, and absenteeism rates among nurses and general support staff of more than ten per cent at... Read more

Buckley contract makes new contract signings less likely

Greg Baxter | 15 August 2008 | Hospital Medicine, Industrial Relations

The decision to increase the salaries of emergency medicine consultants on the Buckley contract makes it less likely that doctors will sign up to the new contract, Irish Medical Times has been told. An arbitrator found that emergency medicine consultants... Read more

HSE investigating 64 complaints of alleged bullying, says Minister

Gary Culliton | 15 August 2008 | Industrial Relations

There were a total of 64 cases of alleged bullying active in the HSE on 16 July, the Minister for Health revealed in a written response to Galway TD Ulick Burke. A total of 20 were in Dublin North East,... Read more

Bord Pleanála to decide on supermarket health centre

By Ian McGuinness | 15 August 2008 | Planning and Development

Plans by Tesco Ireland Limited to create a medical centre in Waterford with 15 consulting rooms have ended up before An Bord Pleanála. The supermarket company applied to Waterford City Council in May for a substantial development at Ballybeg. The... Read more

CUH cardio-renal centre for 2010

By Greg Baxter | 15 August 2008 | Planning and Development

The new €85 million Cardiac/Renal Centre at Cork University Hospital is ahead of schedule and will be finished in 2010, the HSE has stated. Minister for Health, Mary Harney, was on hand to view the progress of the construction last... Read more

Wage muddle over HSE press position

By Terence Cosgrave | 15 August 2008 | Industrial Relations

The Health Service Executive is seeking to recruit a new Media and Press Relations officer to replace Alex Connolly, the former holder of that position. No salary was given in the advertisement for the post but following an enquiry by... Read more

Commission says no to safety agency

By Gary Culliton | 15 August 2008 | Regulation

The Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance has stopped short of recommending a new Patient Safety Agency, as Irish Medical Times signalled on 18 July (www.imt.ie/opinion/2008/07/the_psa_is_not_a_quango_too_fa.html). Fine Gael and Labour proposed such an agency prior to the last General... Read more

Tribunal psychiatrists net over €3.5 million

By Ian McGuinness | 15 August 2008 | Medico-Legal

Consultant psychiatrists were collectively paid nearly €3.621 million last year for sitting on mental health tribunal panels or appearing before those bodies to give their independent opinions. A total of 54 psychiatrists who sat on tribunal panels collectively received just... Read more

Court suggests end to dispute

By Ian McGuinness | 14 August 2008 | Industrial Relations

The Labour Court has suggested a solution to a row relating to cleaning at St Brendan’s Hospital in Loughrea. SIPTU members, who are hospital attendants at the 128-bed geriatric facility, were informed by management that a dedicated cleaning team was... Read more

Small increase in breastfeeding mums

By Ian McGuinness | 14 August 2008 | Public Health

There has been a slow but steady increase in the number of mothers who are breastfeeding their newborn babies, according to the latest perinatal statistics from the Department of Health. The Perinatal Statistics Report 2005, which was compiled by the... Read more

Inchicore to get new care centre

By Ian McGuinness | 14 August 2008 | Planning and Development

Up to €11 million is to be spent on building a primary care centre in Inchicore in Dublin by the Health Service Executive.The HSE issued a tender for companies to apply to it if they want to build the centre,... Read more

Cancer-causing radon levels higher in Ireland

By Gary Culliton | 14 August 2008 | Public Health

People in Ireland are exposed to higher levels of radiation than people living in many other European countries, according to a new report. The results of the report by the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII) are based on a... Read more

HSE South has highest number of involuntary detentions, says report

By Ian McGuinness | 14 August 2008 | Hospital Medicine

More patients were involuntarily detained in psychiatric institutions in the Health Service Executive South region last year than any other area. There were 629 instances of involuntary detentions in the HSE South in 2007, with 119 of them in Cork... Read more

No obstacles to screening roll-out

By Ian McGuinness | 14 August 2008 | Regulation

The Chairman of the Irish Medical Organisation’s GP Committee has said he expects the National Cancer Screening Service will proceed ‘full steam ahead’ with the roll out of the cervical screening programme. Referring to the new contract for providing the... Read more

Summer cutbacks hit Limerick pathology

By Ian McGuinness | 14 August 2008 | Hospital Medicine

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has acknowledged that staffing issues and cost-cutting measures have resulted in some pathology department services at the Mid-Western Hospital in Limerick being curtailed for the summer months. Doctors received a letter last month to inform... Read more

Chronic disease funding used 'to meet financial pressures' - Reilly

By Greg Baxter | 14 August 2008 | Public Health

Only a fraction of the money set aside for chronic disease management in 2007 was actually spent on those services, said Fine Gael Health Spokesperson, Dr James Reilly. He said that only €70,000 of the €5 million budget was spent... Read more

Contract awarded on NPH services

By Ian McGuinness | 14 August 2008 | Planning and Development

A contract worth more than €28.75 million, to provide business services to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, has been awarded. The Board recently named the Dublin based companies Project Management Limited and Beauchamps Solicitors as the winners of the... Read more

Trolley numbers are down to Minister - O'Reilly

By Gary Culliton | 14 August 2008 | Hospital Medicine

Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) figures showed 240 patients on trolleys around the country last Thursday and a staggering 283 on Wednesday. Fine Gael Health spokesperson Dr James Reilly said the average daily number of patients on trolleys in August last... Read more

NCHDs asked about pay and conditions

By Ian McGuinness | 14 August 2008 | Industrial Relations

Junior doctors are being asked to report to the Irish Medical Organisation if cutbacks in the health service are affecting their pay, entitlements or work conditions. The Chief Executive of the union, Mr George McNeice, has written to NCHDs to... Read more

HSE responds to dentists withdrawal from State scheme

Ian McGuinness | 13 August 2008 | Industrial Relations

The Health Service Executive has said that the overall decrease in the number of dentists providing treatment to medical card patients is small, despite the Irish Dental Association announcing that 190 had withdrawn from the State-run scheme. The Association’s Chief... Read more

Waterford to offer graduate qualifications for nurses and midwives

Greg Baxter | 12 August 2008 | Research and Education

Waterford Insititute of Technology (WIT) and the Health Service Executive South will offer a Post-Graduate Diploma and MSc for experienced nurses and midwives. The programme will be open to nurses and midwives in Carlow, Kilkenny, South Tipperary, Waterford and Wexford... Read more

Interview: Dr Michael Maher, Mater Private: radiotherapy for breast cancer

12 August 2008 | Hospital Medicine

Dr Michael Maher is using an innovative new procedure at the Mater Private Hospital that slashes radiotherapy treatment times. One of the most innovative new radiotherapy procedures for breast cancer – still in Phase III trials around the globe –... Read more

Special Report: Still waiting for answers on suicide

Ian McGuinness | 12 August 2008 | Features, Public Health

Irish Medical Times reports from an Oireactas meeting on suicide prevention and finds that answers are still not forthcoming on the progress of implementing the Reach Out report. There are just no answers to suicide. Or so it would seem.... Read more

Beacon awarded JCI accreditation

Gary Culliton | 11 August 2008 | Hospital Medicine

Beacon Hospital has been awarded Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCI). The JCI hospital standards are intended to stimulate continuous, systematic and organisation-wide improvement in daily performance and in the outcomes of patient care. Beacon Renal, also located in the Beacon... Read more

Irish head to Oz in bigger numbers

Greg Baxter | 11 August 2008 | Hospital Medicine

An increasing number of NCHDs, both Irish and non-EU, are opting to work in Australia and New Zealand as locums, a spokesman for an Irish locum agency told Irish Medical Times. Mr David Van Der Vegt, co-owner of Cork-based Locum... Read more

Special report: War has always been a dirty 'biological' battle

Dr Robert O'Sullivan | 11 August 2008 | Foreign News

Dr Robert O'Sullivan traces the bloody and brutal history of the use of biological weapons in warfare. Despite many thinking that these types of weapons are modern, they have been used since ancient times. Biological warfare is loosely defined as... Read more

Some suicides don't count

Ian McGuinness | 08 August 2008 | Public Health

Up to 200 suicides might not be accounted for each year because some car crashes, drownings and other incidents are not being acknowledged as suicide, a prominent TD and activist has warned. Deputy Dan Neville, who is the Chairman of... Read more

New Alzheimer's drug but not yet

Terence Cosgrave | 08 August 2008 | Research and Education

It will be several years before a new drug that has shown remarkable results in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease is available for Irish patients outside of clinical trials — according to Prof Rose Anne Kenny, head of the Department... Read more

Dublin Neurological Institute to open soon

Greg Baxter | 08 August 2008 | Hospital Medicine

The Dublin Neurological Institute on Eccles Street will be officially opened on September 19, and international and national experts will gather for a clinical neuroscience day following the opening. Prof Stanley Fahn and Prof Serge Predzborski of the New York... Read more

GPs asked their opinions of contract

Ian McGuinness | 08 August 2008 | Industrial Relations

GPs are being asked in an Irish Medical Organisation survey whether they would take industrial action if the current GMS contract is not maintained or improved. The survey, which is ongoing, asks GPs if they would be prepared to do... Read more

Commission stops short of recommending quango

Gary Culliton | 07 August 2008 | Regulation

The Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance has stopped short of recommending a new Patient Safety Agency with the panoply of a State organization, as Irish Medical Times signaled some weeks ago. Fine Gael and Labour proposed such an... Read more

New TCD schizophrenia breakthrough

Gary Culliton | 07 August 2008 | Research and Education

Irish researchers have played a key role in developing new information on understanding schizophrenia. People living with schizophrenia are far more likely to carry rare chromosomal structural changes of all types, particularly those that have the potential to alter gene... Read more

NICE guidelines issued on induction of labour

Gary Culliton | 07 August 2008 | Hospital Medicine

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the National Collaborating Centre for Women’s and Children’s Health have just issued updated guidance to doctors and midwives on how to support and care for women being offered and undergoing... Read more

Medico-legal: Supreme Court allows appeal on behalf of Council

06 August 2008 | Medico-Legal, Regulation

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a Supreme Court case in which the Medical Council sought to overturn a High Court order preventing the Fitness to Practise Committee from examining complaints brought against a doctor. Michael Shine, who is now retired,... Read more

Feature: Basic terms of employment

06 August 2008 | Features, Medico-Legal

Dairine Walsh, Solicitor with Beauchamps Solicitors, outlines the minimum requirements that employers must satisfy when hiring an employee either full time or part time. Every doctor who employs staff must give them the basic terms and conditions of their employment... Read more

Pain researched in Galway

Greg Baxter | 06 August 2008 | Research and Education

New research on chronic pain and health economics will take place at NUI Galway this autumn as part of Health Research Board-funded scholar programme. Two student projects will be overseen by senior researchers at the university. A second-year economics and... Read more

Science Foundation gives value for money

Gary Culliton | 06 August 2008 | Research and Education

Science Foundation Ire-land (SFI) last week welcomed the publication of the Value for Money Review of Science Foundation Ireland report, commissioned by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. This report, conducted by Indecon International Economic Consultants, was undertaken in... Read more

Blood service to use merchandise products

Ian McGuinness | 06 August 2008 | Public Health

Pens, key rings, car stickers, fridge magnets, shopping bags, ponchos, towels and backpacks are among the merchandise that the Irish Blood Transfusion Service is going to buy in order to promote itself. The Service is going to award a two-to-three-year... Read more

Digital hospital pioneered by Irish firm

Gary Culliton | 06 August 2008 | Hospital Medicine

An Irish company is helping to spread the ‘Digital Hospital’ concept around the world with its innovative digital triple-play entertainment and information system called MEDIVistaTM. The system allows patients to access TV, Internet and telephone services from a touchscreen computer,... Read more

No catch-up vaccine programme for cervical

Gary Culliton | 06 August 2008 | Public Health

A catch-up HPV vaccination programme will not be put in place for 13- to 15-year-olds, Health Minister Harney has announced. A cervical cancer programme for all 12-year-old girls is to commence from September 2009. It has been left to the... Read more

New 8-bed unit will not address demand

Greg Baxter | 06 August 2008 | Hospital Medicine

The opening, this month, of a temporary eight-bed unit for cystic fibrosis patients in St Vincent’s Hospital will be a ‘huge benefit’ but will not address total demand, the director of CF services there told Irish Medical Times. Dr Charles... Read more

Childhood vaccine increase

Terence Cosgrave | 05 August 2008 | Public Health

There has been an improvement in the uptake of childhood vaccinations to 90 per cent in the four-year period up to 2006 and there was a similar improvement for MMR vaccine from 70 to 85 per cent over the same... Read more

Downturn hits HRB conference

05 August 2008 | Public Health, Research and Education

A conference that was to be held in November by the Health Research Board has been postponed because of the economic downturn and the budgetary restraints being imposed because of that situation. The conference, Working Together To Improve People’s Health,... Read more

No pay level quoted in HSE ad

Terence Cosgrave | 05 August 2008 | Health Management

The Health Service Executive has advertised for a National Director of Communications but has excluded from its press advertising the salary to be paid to the successful candidate. Irish Medical Times has since confirmed that the holder of the 35-hour... Read more

Call from IHCA not to sign deal

Greg Baxter | 05 August 2008 | Industrial Relations

The Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) has urged its members not to sign new contracts until a new disagreement over pay is settled. The HSE-Employers Agency last week informed the IHCA that the Government’s decision to suspend Phases II and... Read more

Platelets labelled with wrong information: IBTS

Ian McGuinness | 04 August 2008 | Public Health

A unit of platelets was mislabelled with the wrong blood group at the National Blood Centre, the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) has said. The IBTS acknowledged that the incident occurred at its headquarters in Dublin city in January this... Read more

Midlands and West get counselling and psychotherapy degree

Mary Anne Kenny | 04 August 2008 | Research and Education

The first BA in Counselling and Psychotherapy in the Midlands and West will commence this September. Details of the new degree were announced on Monday by Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) and ATI Training and Education. The degree is the... Read more

Pharmacy guidance manual is developed

04 August 2008 | Regulation

The Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland’s (PSI’s) Standards and Practice Unit has developed a guidance manual, having reviewed current legislation, statutory provisions, guidelines and codes of practice, as well as international standards and guidelines, with input from the profession in Ireland.... Read more

Pharmacy societies to work more closely

Mary Anne Kenny | 04 August 2008 | Regulation

The Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) and the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland are set to work together on patient safety, it was announced last week. Following a meeting between the chief executives and presidents of the two societies, both... Read more

E-health: Cracking the code to patient safety

Helix Health | 01 August 2008 | Features, Information Technology

A study has revealed that flaws in barcode technology, which aims to match patients with the right medication, can increase the risk of certain drug errors. Barcode technology, which is designed to match hospital patients with the right dose of... Read more

Science Foundation Ireland to fund €23m

Mary Anne Kenny | 01 August 2008 | Research and Education

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) has announced new funding of over €23 million for 143 projects, under the SFI Research Frontiers Programme, for 2008. At the launch of the SFI’s annual report for 2007 in the RCPI last week, Chairman Prof... Read more

Single embryo IVF is 'promising', says study

Greg Baxter | 01 August 2008 | Research and Education

Single-embryo IVF is a promising option for women with favourable reproductive profiles, authors of a new study in Fertility and Sterility have argued. According to the study, pregnancy outcomes were not adversely affected when comparing single-embryo versus double-embryo IVF in... Read more

Dr Anna Clarke elected Medical Council Vice President

Greg Baxter | 01 August 2008 | Regulation

Dr Anna Clarke, a consultant in public health medicine, has been elected as Vice-President of the Medical Council. Dr Clarke is Dean of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and holds a... Read more