The Health Protection Surveillance Centre today urged clinicians and other health professionals to be on the lookout for botulism in injecting drug users following four suspected cases of the disease. HPSC and the HSE East Public Health Department have been informed of four presumptive cases of wound botulism – all affecting injecting drug users – [...]
Young people who, faced with a choice between paying their mortgage or their health insurance, will have to choose the former, Fine Gael Health spokeperson Dr James Reilly has said. “Government actions in imposing a health insurance levy and increasing bed charges have distorted the health insurance market to such an extent that it is [...]
A logjam looms in the Health Service Executive’s (HSE) bid to roll out the new consultant contract, after a series of rows erupted between the Executive and the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA). The timetable for introducing the consultant contract is now under serious threat, following a major wrangle over ‘indirect clinical activity’, which the [...]
A scanner worth €1.5 million for Mallow General Hospital – now being used for just two half-days per week – was purchased in 2006 and a competition was held to appoint radiographers, but it appears that these two decisions were taken in a vacuum, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has found. “Issues relating to staffing [...]
Education for doctors could be cut if excessively strict guidelines are created to regulate GPs’ relationships with pharmaceutical companies, the Chairman of the Irish Medical Organisation’s GP Committee has warned. Dr Ronan Boland was responding to the recent Dáil Public Accounts Committee report that called for stricter Medical Council ethical guidelines to regulate GPs’ relationships [...]
Beacon Medical Group has said that the company and its subsidiary undertakings are fully tax compliant. In addition, the entities that have signed the Project Agreements for the three co-location hospitals at CUH, MWRH, and Beaumont are in receipt of relevant tax clearance certificates from the Revenue. This follows questions raised this week by Fine [...]
The incidence of cervical cancer in Ireland is expected to increase, as the national cervical screening programme is now available across the country, a new report says. The Women’s Health Council today launched a report on “Cancer Treatments: A review of the bio-medical evidence on breast, ovarian and cervical cancer”. A review of treatments for [...]
Almost half of all people with HIV are discriminated against by friends. The report by Irish Aid, the Department for Health and Children, people living with HIV (PLHIV) and national and international NGOs, found 54% of the public took a negative outlook on people with the condition. Figures show 4,781 were living in the Republic [...]
The number of people working in the health sector increased over the past year, despite the dramatic fall in overall employment figures in State in the same timeframe. The latest Central Statistics Office statistics showed that when the third quarter of 2008 is compared to the same timeframe in 2007, there were 25,200 fewer people [...]
Doctors should engage with the newly reformed and modernised Medical Council, the president of the Council has said. Addressing the Ethics and Legal Medicine Workshop of the College of Anaesthetists, Prof Kieran Murphy said: “The [Medical Practitioners] Act now offers the medical profession new ways in which vastly more doctors can become engaged in setting [...]
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