Major jobs cuts in the HSE’s community services will be unveiled within the next few days, Chief Executive Prof Brendan Drumm has revealed in an exclusive interview with Irish Medical Times’ website. Speaking last night, Prof Drumm admitted that the HSE is facing likely staff cuts right across hospital and community services. “A lot of [...]
To date, 10,182 persons have returned their over 70’s medical card to the HSE in compliance with the law ending the automatic entitlement to a medical card for people aged 70 and over, the HSE has said. A further 9,264 cards were cancelled as a result of the HSE’s verification process to ensure that there [...]
Research into why many women with learning disabilities fail to attend breast cancer screening appointments will be carried out at the University of Ulster. A grant of £20,000 has been awarded by the UK charity Breast Cancer Campaign. One of the researchers, Dr Laurence Taggart, a lecturer in nursing, said he hoped to develop information [...]
Mild cognitive impairment, or memory problems, may not be linked to dementia as closely as previously thought, new research from the University of Leicester reveals. Previously, many doctors told patients with such impairment that their risk of developing dementia was up to 15 per cent per year, according to the author of the study, Dr [...]
The first national Bowel Cancer Awareness month will take place this April in a bid to raise awareness and understanding of the second most common cancer in Ireland, which is accountable for some 12-14% of all cancer deaths in Ireland. Experts at Beacon Hospital are seeking to highlight the typical symptoms of Bowel Cancer and [...]
The shortlist for the 2009 Helix Health Irish Pharmacist Awards was announced today. The Pharmacist Awards are open to all those in the pharmacy profession in research, science and community or hospital based practice fields. The shortlist includes pharmacists throughout the country, from counties, Clare, Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Louth, Mayo, Sligo and Westmeath. Three [...]
Some HSE consultants treat up to eight times more patients than doctors working in the same specialties at other public hospitals. The discrepancies are exposed for the first time in new HSE HealthStat figures. Patient throughput varies hugely at consultant-led outpatient departments and a major row has erupted between the HSE and the consultants’ body [...]
It would be ‘inadvisable, unwise and ineffective’ for the Government and the HSE to employ ‘knee-jerk reactions’ in deciding on topline cuts in public health spending, the IMO has warned. IMO CEO George McNeice stated that the country had already experienced the effects of a lack of investment in the health service over a period [...]
Approximately one in ten adults have taken tranquillisers or have used antidepressants at some stage in their lives, according to a new report. The major new survey on drug prevalence also found that use of such medications in Northern Ireland was nearly double that reported here. Eleven per cent of those aged 15-64 had taken [...]
Calls to GP practices in Northern Ireland suggest an increased number of patients from the Republic are crossing the border to see doctors for half the price. A staff member at a surgery in Aughnacloy, County Tyrone, close to the border with Monaghan, said: “I can tell you there has been an increase in the [...]
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