A new report analysing the labour market for healthcare professions has predicted that by 2020, the current gender distribution of GPs will be reversed in favour of females with a ratio of 65:35. This projected dominance by women, together with an ageing population and more part-time workers, will contribute to a major shortfall in the [...]
The administrators of the nursing homes repayment scheme, KPMG/McCann Fitzgerald, have received €12.8 million since the launch of the process, which was back in August 2006. In excess of 17,400 payments have been made to claimants at a value of €385 million, the Minister for Health Mary Harney revealed in the Dáil recently. A total [...]
There were 19 prosecutions for sales of tobacco to minors last year. The offences resulted from test purchase inspections by Environmental Health Officers (EHOs), according to the Annual Report of the Office of Tobacco Control. A two-day test purchase training programme was operated in all HSE areas. A total of 24 cases were taken for [...]
THE Dublin Mid-Leinster region of the HSE spends almost three times more than what some other regions spend on taxis — almost E6 million more on taxis than HSE South, for example, despite having almost the same population. A total of €9,043,358 was spent on taxis and hackneys for patients and staff in Dublin Mid-Leinster [...]
The Department of Health has cut its expenditure on bottled water by more than 85 per cent over the past thee years, it has emerged. In 2006, the cost of bottled water and water coolers at the Department’s headquarters at Hawkins House totalled E17,312. This was reduced to €10,901 the following year and to just [...]
Teams of GPs, community based nurses and other professionals are being established at seven locations to work with the National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) to implement the Community Oncology Programme. The Regional Implementation Teams will develop localised work plans, which will be supported by the NCCP at national level. The teams will have a role [...]
In an article in last week’s Irish Medical Times regarding the new private hospital in Cork developed by Sheehan Medical, it stated that Sheehan Medical currently runs the Blackrock and Galway Clinics. IMT wishes to clarify that Sheehan Medical has no role in management, but Dr Joseph Sheehan is a shareholder in both facilities. Neither [...]
The current treatment method for Crohn’s disease (CD) might show better patient outcomes if it were to be reversed, according to a world expert on the condition. Dr Stephen Hanauer – Chief of Gastroenterology and Nutrition at the University of Chicago Medical Centre, Illinois – said that under the ‘step-up’ treatment path, patients must ‘earn’ [...]
A high proportion of deliberate self-harm patients leave emergency departments (EDs) before receiving an assessment, new research has found. Since 2002, the National Registry of Deliberate Self Harm has recorded presentations of deliberate self-harm (DSH) to hospital EDs. Over the seven-year period, there were on average about 11,000 DSH presentations involving about 8,500 persons each [...]
The HSE has identified the location, logistics and staffing required to set up 121 ‘Flu Clinics’ across the country to deal with an escalation in the swine flu pandemic, Irish Medical Times has learned. These flu clinics will provide diagnostic services and antiviral dispensing during the peak weeks of the H1N1 pandemic flu wave. The [...]
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