The first Fitness to Practise (FTP) inquiry to be held in public will take place next Wednesday, the Medical Council has revealed. In a short statement, the Council confirmed that the Fitness to Practise Committee of the Medical Council would hear a FTP inquiry against ‘a registered medical practitioner’ on March 4, in public. The [...]
Minister for Health Mary Harney has signed the Order commencing Part 6 of the Medical Practitioners Act, introducing a new system of registration for doctors. The Department of Health has confirmed to Irish Medical Times that the new registration system will be introduced on March 16. The Order also provides for the repeal of all [...]
The HSE has said it is important to distinguish between the industrial relations and the disciplinary processes in the ongoing dispute at Portiuncula Hospital, Co Galway. Two assistant directors of nursing were suspended on full pay for disobeying instructions from the hospital’s general manager, the HSE claimed. After an appeal process, they went on sick [...]
Up to four extra centres will be needed for rectal cancer surgery, in addition to the eight cancer centres designated by the Director of the National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) Prof Tom Keane, a report by the Irish Society of Coloproctology for the RCSI, has found. The report was submitted to Prof Tom Keane and [...]
The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment has committed to amending the Competition Act, which should allow meaningful contract negotiations to take place with the IMO. Minister Mary Coughlan told the Dáil that she intended to bring forward legislation during the course of this year to give effect to the amalgamation of the National Consumer [...]
More athletes are controversially opting for laser eye surgery to enhance their performance. Natural vision is 20/20 but laser eye surgery can improve some patients’ sight to 20/10, meaning they can clearly see objects further away better than a person with normal sight. Some commentators are asking should getting laser eye surgery be considered cheating, [...]
The Health Service Executive has deferred cuts which would have seen junior hospital doctors losing the equivalent of €10,000 each per year. This was to allow talks with the Irish Medical Organisation to commence at the Labour Relations Commission last Monday. An IMO ballot for industrial action – up to and including all-out strike action [...]
Former British and Irish Lions and Irish international rugby team medical chief Dr Gary O’Driscoll has joined former ‘top-four’ Premiership side Arsenal. Arsenal has announced that it has appointed Dr O’Driscoll as the new club doctor replacing Dr Ian Beasley, who has taken up a role within the England national setup. Dr O’Driscoll has been [...]
In the period 2004-2007 the National Poisons Information centre (NPIC) received 286 enquiries regarding Ecstasy poisoning. Six of these enquiries concerned suspected Ecstasy ingestion in children aged three years or less. Fourteen of these children were asymptomatic on presentation to the hospital emergency department while two presented with symptoms of moderate toxicity, a report in [...]
The HSE has announced that it is launching a programme to modernise its Medical Laboratory Services, as part of its ongoing transformation of services, The Medical Laboratory Service currently incorporates 46 laboratories with approximately 3,000 staff and operating costs of €328 million per year. Approximately 58 million tests are processed on an annual basis by [...]
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