The European Commission has announced a series of actions to help countries tackle the gaps in health that exist between and within countries in the EU. Despite increased prosperity and overall improvements in health, inequalities between and within countries persist and in some cases are increasing, the Commission has warned. Difference in life expectancy at [...]
The percentage spend of National Lottery funding apportioned to the health budget has fallen dramatically over the past decade, dropping to just 3 per cent last year. New figures released in the Dáil reveal that in 1999, Health was allocated 8 per cent of the Lottery’s funding. This fell to 5 per cent in 2004. [...]
For the first time an Irish consultant paediatric endocrinologist will become president of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE). Prof Hilary Hoey of the National Children’s Hospital, Tallaght, and Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, was elected at the Society’s recent meeting of 2,000 delegates in New York. “I feel very honoured to have been [...]
The telephone counselling service, Connect, is extending opening hours in preparation for the publication of the Dublin Diocesan Report into clerical sexual abuse. So far this year, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of calls relating to sexual abuse to the service – an increase of 45 per cent on 2008. Call [...]
Almost all of the applications to the Medical Council for the transfer of medical practitioners from the General Division to the Trainee Specialist Division have now been processed, following delays. The Medical Council and the Health Service Executive have implemented a new system for recognising the number and type of trainee specialist posts in Ireland, [...]
The HSE intends over the coming months to hire experts to carry out a major review of security, catering, cleaning and portering services, Irish Medical Times has learned. The Executive plans to hire a facilities management firm to conduct the ‘data gathering exercise’ on how these services are delivered. The objective will be to develop [...]
More than €150 million in joint EU/pharmaceutical industry funding promises to accelerate the discovery and development of new medicines in the field of cancer, inflammatory and infectious disease. The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), the public-private partnership between the European Commission and the European pharmaceutical industry, announced recently (September 14) that €156.3 million will be available [...]
The Department of Health has received 60 submissions on resource allocation and financing in the health sector following a public consultation earlier this year. Among those who made submissions were the Competition Authority, ICGP, IMO, Irish Association of Emergency Medicine, Vhi Healthcare, the National Treatment Purchase Fund and the Mental Health Commission. Submissions were also [...]
Cleaning our hospitals cost the Health Service Executive (HSE) €158 million last year alone. More than €110 million was spent on in-house cleaning, while just over €47 million was spent on contract cleaners. The information was released to Fine Gael TD Denis Naughten in response to a parliamentary question. He calculated the average cost of [...]
Last week there was an Influenza Like Illness (ILI) rate being reported through the sentinel system of general practitioners of 97.1 per hundred thousand of population, it has emerged. The figures include seasonal and H1N1 flu and represents an increase from the previous week’s figure of 88 per 100,000. Among children aged between five and [...]
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