The Health Insurance Authority (HIA) has withdrawn plans to produce a media campaign highlighting consumers’ rights to switch their health insurance plan without penalty, despite the Minister for Health pledging to ‘fully inform’ consumers of their rights in all health insurance matters. Announcing the measures to support the cost of health insurance for older people, [...]
GPs do not have the experience to deal with stress in the workplace, and typically give patients sick notes and medication for stress, an expert in the organisational psychology told the RCPI. Prof Cary Cooper told the Faculty of Occupational Medicine that people who suffer from stress at the workplace are ‘going to the wrong [...]
Ireland’s first Health Technology Assessment (HTA) function differs significantly from the controversial body NICE in the UK, in that it has no decision-making role. According to Dr Patricia Harrington, Acting Director of the Authority’s HTA Directorate, the function of the group will be to advise the Minister for Health and the HSE on effective health [...]
Last Saturday’s ICGP Winter Meeting saw the launch of three different sets of guidelines for GPs: ‘Asthma Control in General Practice’, ‘Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Patients: The Issues for General Practice’ and ‘CervicalCheck: the National Guide for Smeartakers’. Copies of each set of guidelines can be obtained from the Irish College of General Practitioners. Call [...]
Fine Gael Health Spokesperson, Dr James Reilly TD has asked the Taoiseach if he or his Ministers have any plans to deal with the proliferation of so called “head shops” and “hemp shops” selling mind-altering products, party pills and other such products. Dr Reilly highlighted the great concern in local communities about these shops and [...]
All residents at adult addiction treatment centres in Ireland should undergo an oral cancer screening examination upon admission to the centre, according to Dr Eleanor O’Sullivan of Cork University Dental School and Hospital in her report on Oral Cancer Screening Study of High Risk Individuals. In Ireland, oral and pharyngeal cancer represents approximately 4% of [...]
Former Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, last week conferred the EuroRec Quality Label 2008 for Electronic Healthcare Records systems on four Irish companies. This is the first time in Europe that companies have been granted the EuroRec Seal since its introduction. The recipients were: * CompleteGP, version 2.1 of Eircom, Cork; * Health One, version 6 of [...]
The latest annual report by leading cancer organizations in the US found that overall rates of new cancer cases and deaths have fallen for the first time since the report was first compiled ten years ago, but within those figures there are disturbingly large state and regional differences in lung cancer rates among women, highlighting [...]
Last year, 38 people lost their lives on Irish roads during the month of December, with 18 people killed or seriously injured over the Christmas period alone. This tragic toll was highlighted at the launch yesterday in Cork University Hospital, of the 2008 Christmas anti drink driving campaign from the Road Safety Authority (RSA) and [...]
Some €400,000 has been wasted between January and August 2008 on out-of-date or unusable vaccines, according to Dr Anna Clarke, Consultant in Public Health Medicine at the Department of Public Health. “We’re seeing a huge number of returned vaccines to the National Immunisation Office,” she told the ICGP Winter Meeting, which took place last Saturday [...]
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