The High Court has found that a woman in a psychiatric hospital who challenged her involuntarily detention order, had not been legally detained. However Mr Justice McMahon has put a stay of four weeks on her release. She has been in a psychiatric hospital since last year and is on medication. Her solicitor said care [...]
Up to €13.5 million per year is wasted on prescribed oral nutritional supplements, the HSE has said, and the Executive will put in place a programme to reduce the amount wasted on these products by €7 million per year. Health Minister Harney has said she believes ‘there is over-prescribing of nutritional products in circumstances where [...]
People over 70 visited their family doctor almost twice as much as average adults in 2007, figures released by the Central Statistics Office have revealed. The CSO report shows that people over 70 years who have a medical card visit their GP over five times a year. This compares with much fewer visits by people [...]
Three mental health properties worth nearly €8.5 million have been sold since the publication of the mental health strategy ‘A Vision for Change’ in January 2006, with all proceeds having been surrendered to the Exchequer. The total funds from the sale of Verville Retreat, Clontarf (€6,310,561), 30 Mount Pleasant Square (€1,331,703) and Adare House, 227 [...]
The conviction of Martin McDaid and M&M McDaid on 16 charges of supplying unauthorised medicinal products has sent a message to anyone providing unauthorised medicinal products, the chief executive of the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) has suggested. Mr Pat O’Mahony said: “We hope that the outcome of the court cases sends out a clear message [...]
The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO)’s GP Committee last night met to discuss a recommended €350 cut in the capitation payment for those who have qualified for medical cards on age grounds.The IMO may decide to ballot its 2,200 GPs on the payment. The government has accepted a renegotiated deal on medical gold cards for over [...]
The Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly has clarified her role in resolving complaints against public hospitals and HSE service providers, outlining that the Office ‘cannot deal with complaints involving clinical judgment’. Ms O’Reilly said there was ‘some confusion’ among members of the public, who were ‘justifiably concerned about hospital patients and their treatment’. The Ombudsman stated: “While [...]
Outdated terminology needs to be tackled alongside service deficiencies for patients who suffer a transient ischaemic attack (TIA), so the public learn the real implications of a ‘minor’ stroke, a group of doctors at Adelaide and Meath Hospital have stated. Prof Desmond O’Neill, Consultant Geriatrician at Tallaght Hospital, told IMT that TIA patients experienced delays [...]
Representatives of the Irish College of Psychiatrists have met with Senator Frances Fitzgerald, Fine Gael Seanad Leader and Health spokesperson and Dr James Reilly, Opposition spokesperson for Health and Children, to discuss a number of psychiatric health related issues. The principal areas for discussion at the 13 October meeting were: * Consent and administration of [...]
Dr Yvonne Begley outlines a range of common mental health disorders that child and adolescent psychiatrists encounter and presents ideas about treatment. Child and adolescent mental health disorders affect an estimated one in ten of young people in Ireland at any one time. Specialist services are patchy and under-resourced. We estimate that approximately one in [...]
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