Women who lie on their backs for 15 minutes after artificial insemination have a ‘significantly higher’ chance of getting pregnant than those who move around straight after treatment. Dutch researchers are now calling for all women undergoing intrauterine insemination to be offered 15 minutes of immobilisation after the procedure. Writing in the BMJ (http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.b4080), the [...]
Fine Gael Health Spokesperson, Dr James Reilly, has said the ‘massive increase’ in the cost of public nursing home beds following an analysis by HSE officials should be analysed independently. “No adequate explanation has been given for the glaring difference between the old and new costs for the public nursing home beds. “The HSE says [...]
Severe capacity problems at kidney units around the country mean patients are now getting their kidney dialysis treatment in the middle of the night at four hospitals. There are currently four shifts being worked in Beaumont, Cork and Waterford. Three dialysis shifts are being worked in Galway. Beaumont has the largest proportion of patients receiving [...]
The Minister for Health has answered just 45 per cent of parliamentary questions (PQs) in full during Dáil question time so far this year. New figures reveal that out of the 4,296 PQs received by the Department of Health up to October 8, just 1,928 have been answered by the Minister for Health and Children, [...]
Collisions in the scrum do not appear to cause long-term damage to the cervical spine of rugby players, an Irish study has found. Compared to the general population X-rays of 14 rugby players showed they had significant cervical spine degenerative changes. However, they did not have increased symptoms such as neck pain or weakness in [...]
The Medical Council has found a doctor guilty of professional misconduct for falsifying his surgical experience gained in Nigeria before taking up a post in Ireland. At a hearing in Dublin yesterday (October 28), the Council’s Fitness to Practise Committee (FTP) heard that when Dr Okwu Timothy Okwu took up a post at St Luke’s [...]
Uncertainty still exists over the future direction of a number of healthcare facilities that fall under the umbrella of the high-profile Harlequin Healthcare/Mount Carmel Health Group. The group owns Mount Carmel Maternity Hospital in Rathfarnham in Dublin, which it acquired for E50m a few years ago. The group also owns Aut Even Hospital in Kilkenny [...]
Figures released to the Fine Gael Health Spokesperson, Dr James Reilly TD, show there are 147 health service employees on paid leave for more than six months, 127 of whom are on long term sick leave. Over €11 million has been paid to these employees from the date their leave commenced to date. A total [...]
The HSE has taken the first official step in contracting out diagnostic imaging services such as MRI, CT and PET CT scans to the private sector. The Executive has initiated a competition to establish a framework-type agreement for the provision of diagnostic imaging managed service, portable facilities, equipment and specialist personnel to all HSE-owned facilities [...]
Name badges, briefcases, batteries, other items of stationery as well as administration costs incurred by the Health Service Executive (HSE) amounted to almost E2 billion between 2005 and 2008. Last year, E509 million was spent. In 2007 the figure was E500 million. In 2006 it was E467 million and in 2005 it was E516 million. [...]
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