VHI Healthcare is cutting fees paid to hospital consultants and GPs by five per cent, under a new agreement due to come into effect tomorrow. The insurer says it is now becoming ‘uneconomic’ to use private beds in public voluntary hospitals, which it calculates cost 11 per cent more than beds in private hospitals. The [...]
The European Commission on health has adopted its official recommendation for EU member states to create a smoke free Europe by 2012. The proposal calls on all member states to protect their citizens from exposure to tobacco smoke by 2012. EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou said: “It is my firm belief that each and every [...]
HIQA has published a Report on Recommendations for a Unique Health Identifier for Individuals in Ireland. A method for safely identifying patients in both public and private aspects of the health and social care system should be introduced as soon as possible, the report urges. At the moment in Ireland there is no reliable method [...]
The Fitness to Practise Panel of the General Medical Council (GMC) in the UK is due to complete its latest sitting of the public inquiry into Dr Andrew Wakefield this Friday, June 26. Together with Prof John Walker-Smith and Prof Simon Murch, Dr Wakefield is being investigated over allegations of serious professional misconduct in relation [...]
IRISH scientists have developed a supplement that slows the progression of the world’s leading cause of blindness. The first clinical study of its kind into age-related macular degeneration (AMD) was undertaken by researchers at Queen’s University in Belfast and Waterford Institute of Technology over five years. The study found a high intake of lutein and [...]
Most men attending urology clinics would be willing to donate prostate tissue to a biobank for cancer research. That was the main finding of research from the School of Public Health and Population Science at University College Dublin (UCD), and the Depart-ments of Urology and Psychiatry at the Mater Hospital. ‘Patients attending tertiary referral urology [...]
The HSE’s early retirement scheme has had 1,158 enquiries but only 12 applications, a reply to a Parliamentary Question has revealed. Fine Gael Health Spokesperson, Dr James Reilly, said the Government’s Budget measures to cut the State payroll bill through career breaks and an early retirement scheme has proved “a dismal disappointment where the health [...]
As part of the ongoing actions by the Gay Health Network (GHN) the, Rubber Up With Pride Campaign 2009, takes place tomorrow (Saturday). To encourage men who have sex with men (MSM), to practice safer sex by using condoms, the GHN, along with the HSE’s the Gay Men’s Health ServiceGMHS is also holding a Syphilis [...]
More than eight out of ten IMO NCHDs have voted to accept Labour Court proposals on the implementation of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD). Doctors had until 5pm yesterday (June 25) to return their postal ballots to IMO House on the new working arrangements, although ballot boxes were also present at meetings held earlier [...]
Dr Dermot Power, consultant in geriatric medicine at the Mater and Medical Director of St Mary’s Hospital, Phoenix Park has officially become the newest member of the Board of the HSE, six months after the resignation of his predecessor. Appointed by the Minister for Health to replace President of UCC Prof Michael Murphy — who [...]
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