The Medical Council’s new Ethical Guide has reiterated the need for all doctors to receive the swine flu vaccine when it is rolled out to healthcare professionals. The Chairman of the Council’s Ethics Working Group, Dr Deirdre Madden, told Irish Medical Times that while the guide did not specifically refer to the current pandemic, the [...]
The economic downturn has resulted in a reduced number of workplace accident claims made to the Personal Injuries Assessment Board in 2009. Chief executive Patricia Byron said the Board had seen a 3 per cent decrease so far this year while new figures for 2008 show the Injuries Board paid out €31.4 million that year [...]
A formal cross-border initiative in diabetes research has been set up by teams at NUI Galway and the University of Ulster to develop innovative solutions to the growing problem of the condition. Together with the HSE West and the Western Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland, the collaborative cross-border partnership brings together clinicians [...]
Only a ‘tiny’ number of doctors are practising without insurance but they ‘can and will cause damage’, Fine Gael health spokesperson Dr James Reilly has said. Anecdotal estimates put the number of uninsured doctors at around 40 or 50. In particular, the legislation would protect the public from doctors who flew in and out of [...]
A group of specialists has brought the international Residual Risk Reduction initiative (R3i) to this country in a bid to address the ‘disconcerting rates’ of macrovascular events and microvascular complications among Irish patients. Co-chaired by Dr Maeve Durkan, Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology, Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, and Dr Vincent Maher, Consultant Cardiologist, AMNCH, Tallaght, the [...]
Antibiotic use dropped significantly during the first six months of 2009, new figures from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) indicate. Although the rate of consumption was at its highest ever in January, the average monthly consumption fell by 12.6 per cent. However, the HPSC said it remained to be seen if the positive impact [...]
An Bord Pleanála has refused an appeal against a decision by Kildare County Council earlier this year to deny planning permission for a 60-bedroom nursing home in the county. The 1.75ha site for the proposed development is located at Balyna, Broadford, Co Kildare, west of Johnstown Bridge and Ennfield, and is currently in use as [...]
Dr Garrett Lawlor has been awarded a fellowship a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital — one of the leading academic medical centres in the US. The Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Fellowship offers a tenure at the Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre (BIDMC), Boston, which is associated with Harvard Medical School. [...]
The Medical Council’s new ethical guide has tackled the controversial issue of healthcare resources head on by openly encouraging doctors to prescribe generic drugs. In a major departure for the Council, the seventh edition of the ‘Guide to Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Medical Practitioners’, states that doctors have a ‘duty’ to assist in [...]
The IMO has presented Health Minister Mary Harney with a four-point plan it said would reduce the State’s annual medicines bill by €300 million. It said the savings would far exceed the €30 million identified in the McCarthy report and the €65 million identified in last year’s report by Dr Micheal Barry on economies in [...]
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