Hibernian Health, the health insurance arm of Hibernian Group, Ireland’s largest insurer, has announced it will not absorb the new government health insurance levy. Customers will be charged the €160 levy. Hibernian said it would formally challenge the Government’s “anti-consumer and anti-competition health insurance levy of €160 per adult and €53 per child.” The levy, [...]
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre today urged people in high-risk categories to get vaccinated against influenza, as the number of reported cases of influenza-like illness (ILI) in Ireland has doubled in the past week. ILI rates have risen from 20.3 per 100,000 in the first week of December to 41.3 per 100,000 in the second [...]
The average length of stay for acute in-patients in Irish hospitals in 2006 was 4.8 days. Close to 1.25 million discharges were reported by Irish hospitals and over half of total discharges were day patients (53.2%); the remainder were in-patients (46.8%). These discharges used over 4.3 million bed days. Acute in-patients (length of stay 30 [...]
Irish Medical Times has been crowned Website of the Year at the Periodical Publishers Association of Ireland Awards (PPAI). The award was presented to editor Terence Cosgrave at a gala dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel last Thursday night. It’s a huge achievement for the site which has only been in existence in its current form [...]
Management and staff will be fully consulted on a plan to slash €920m from the health services budget next year, Taoiseach Brian Cowen has said. Unions want to bring forward alternative cost-cutting proposals which they said will not impact so heavily on patient care. The HSE’s controversial National Service Plan for 2009 includes plans to [...]
Since the BreastCheck service began, a total of 442,612 BreastCheck mammograms have been provided to women aged 50 to 64 and 2,717 breast cancers have been detected and treated (2000–September 2008). The Board of the National Cancer Screening Service (NCSS) today published its first Annual Report. Since its establishment in January 2007, the Board has [...]
Connect, which is a free and confidential counselling service for adults who were abused in childhood is to extend its hours to open every day over Christmas. The service is normally available Wednesday to Sunday 6-10pm, however it will open from 6pm-10pm every day from December 24th to January 4th. Connect is telephone based and [...]
The Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC) based at University College Cork which is focusing on research in gastrointestinal health is to benefit from new grant funding announced today. The five-year funding awards recipients under the Science Foundation Ireland Centres for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSETs) Programme were revealed. APC’s Director is Prof. Fergus Shanahan, and its [...]
During 2007, a total of 1,397 cases involving breaches of medicinal product legislation were initiated by the Irish Medicines Board (IMB), according to its Annual Report. The number of enforcement cases initiated for breach of medicinal product legislation almost trebled compared to 469 in 2006. This increase can be attributed to the continued co-operation with [...]
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre today warned teenagers and young adults to make sure that they have had two doses of MMR vaccine following over 1000 cases of the disease in 2008. 1166 cases have been reported so far compared with 132 for the same period last year and MMR vaccination is the only way [...]
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