The Health Service Executive (HSE) wants to radically restructure how it funds the health service by examining a new patient level costing (PLC) system that can measure the resources consumed by individual patients. The move would constitute a sweeping change from the current predominantly ‘top down’ allocation approach, which is based on averages and apportionments, [...]
The HSE has achieved a 28-fold increase in the number of primary care teams (PCTs) in development, with a stroke of a pen. In March, it had three PCTs in development, but increased this to 84 the following month. According to the latest HSE Performance Report for May 2009, there are now 88 teams in [...]
Professor Cathal Kelly has been appointed as the new chief executive of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), and will take up the post in 2010. The Inishowen native has been the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences since 2006. Prior to his appointment, he worked as a consultant general [...]
A lack of knowledge and understanding of the work of general practitioners has been shown by the Health Service Executive during the Transformation Programme. That is according to the Chairman of the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP), Dr Mark Walsh, who said that there had been ‘little, if any, meaningful engagement with general practice’ [...]
The HSE has signed advance purchasing agreements with Baxter Healthcare and GlaxoSmithKline (Ireland) worth E88 million for the supply of human pandemic influenza vaccines. As exclusively revealed in Irish Medical Times last month, the HSE has also identified the location, logistics and staffing required to set up 121 ‘flu clinics’ across the country to provide [...]
The National Cancer Screening Service (NCSS) has today (July 29) announced that Cervical Check – the National Cervical Screening Programme – will move to population-based screening model. Women aged 25 to 60 will be invited for screening. Over 4,250 GPs, practice nurses and medical practitioners in over 1,400 locations nationwide are registered to take smear [...]
The likely cost to the State of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse is estimated to be in the region of €126 million to €136 million, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) has revealed. In a report published today (July 29), C&AG John Buckley revealed that the Commission, chaired by Mr Justice Sean Ryan, [...]
The HSE has said that 776 pharmacist contractors have given the Executive agreement termination notices. A total of 867 pharmacies will be open for medical card and other State drugs schemes from August 1, as 30 days’ notice is required to terminate the Community Pharmacy Contractor Agreement. The HSE confirmed these pharmacies will operate the [...]
The European Commission has approved the proposed acquisition of Wyeth by Pfizer, on the condition that the latter divests several types of animal health vaccines, pharmaceuticals and medicinal feed additives in the European Economic Area (EEA). Pfizer has also offered to divest Wyeth’s manufacturing facility in Sligo. The Commission had concerns that the transaction, as [...]
The Board of Governors of the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) is seeking planning permission from Dublin City Council for a six-storey extension. The development will be sited to the rear of the existing hospital and incorporates a new ‘emergency-only’ entrance accessed via the existing archway entrance off Holles Street for ambulance and emergency drop-offs. To [...]
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