There’s some good news and bad news from the health service this week. The good news is that the Department of Health and the HSE intends to merge its separate media monitoring contracts in order to completely digitise the service and cut costs. The health authorities are on the verge of awarding a possible three-year [...]
The Irish Medicines Board (IMB) is seeking submissions on a proposed new licensing system for homeopathic medicines. Interested parties have until December 31 to submit their views to the Board on its National Rules Scheme (NRS) for Homeopathic Medicinal Products for Human Use. The scheme has been devised to provide a legal framework to licensing [...]
Prof Cathal Kelly has become the new registrar of the RCSI. The Consultant General and Vascular Surgeon in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, has been Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences in the College since 2006. He is both a graduate and Fellow of the RCSI. Under his guidance, the RCSI’s graduate-entry programme in [...]
The Irish Cancer Society (ICS) has welcomed the Budget announcement that a national bowel cancer screening programme will be rolled out next year, saying it looked forward to discussions about how its €1 million funding will be spent. Chairman of the ICS, Bill McCabe, said: “We applaud the Minister’s determination to make bowel cancer screening [...]
The search for a replacement for one of the most challenging jobs in Ireland is underway, with the placement by the HSE of an advertisement in the national media for a new chief executive officer. Prof Brendan Drumm will step down from the position when his five-year contract finishes next August. The HSE is looking [...]
The number of contracts signed for primary care centres has been disputed by Fine Gael health spokesperson Dr James Reilly. He said the claim that there were 90 centres was false and that most teams in place were ‘virtual in nature’. “It is indicative of the tortoise-like movement in the real development of primary care [...]
Three women living in Ireland are challenging Ireland’s ban on abortion in the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights this week. The women’s case was due to be heard on December 9 in Strasbourg in front of 17 judges, with the Irish Government opposing. Abortion is criminalised under the Offences Against the [...]
A total of 483 reports of suspected adverse reactions to the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 vaccines have been received by the Irish Medicines Board (IMB), as of December 2. The reports received to date remain consistent with the expected pattern of adverse effects for the pandemic vaccines, the HSE said. Among the common reactions reported, which [...]
Irish doctors will now be able to combine relaxation with education by taking an eight-day cruise through the Caribbean and their CME points — courtesy of Irish Medical Times. The Tropical Medical Bureau has joined with TravelEd, a newly formed business that specialises in providing overseas education, to provide a new and unique continuing medical [...]
Twenty-six cases of Verotoxigenic E. coli (VTEC) have been reported in November, compared with between two and 10 cases for the same period in previous years, according to HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) specialist in public health medicine, Dr Paul McKeown. VTEC can cause severe bloody diarrhoea and abdominal cramps. Usually there is little [...]
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