Billing irregularities have led to a refund of €1.3 million by St Luke’s cancer hospital in Dublin to Vhi Healthcare, Irish Medical Times has learned. Vhi said that a billing review in August 2008 identified a number of ‘irregularities regarding accommodation charges’, including cases where Vhi had been “billed for accommodation while members were on [...]
A doctor who has been in practice for many years with another doctor who has a GMS list is not eligible to apply for that list unless s/he undergoes a particular training programme, Health Minister Harney told the Oireachtas Health Committee last week. She said this was a “bone of contention”. The Competition Authority has [...]
The HSE CEO estimates that the Executive needs to vaccinate an additional 600,000 people if it is to protect the population against a further wave of swine flu. Prof Brendan Drumm has indicated that while overall vaccine coverage has been significantly higher here than in other European countries, just 19.5 per cent of the whole [...]
The Irish Stem Cell Foundation has warned against blood-cord stem cell banks. Irish parents should be careful about investing in treatmentsat clinics that offer to ‘bank’ stem cells from the umbilical cords of newborns for use later in life when illness strikes, stated Dr Stephen Sullivan, founding director of the Irish Stem Cell Foundation. Clinics [...]
The Irish Medicines Board (IMB) has issued an advisory notice on a cryosurgical device that uses carbon dioxide (CO2) gas. A manufacturing problem has been detected in the Wallach LL100 Cryosurgical System CO2 where a restriction of the flow of CO2 gas within the handle may result in a less than optimum temperature delivery to [...]
One person bet €500 at evens that Prof Tom Keane will emerge as the next HSE CEO, on February 4, bookmakers Paddy Power reports. This brought his odds tumbling to 1/3. “There have been a number of other nibbles on [Prof Keane] since, but nothing else of that magnitude,” said Paddy Power spokesperson Ken Robertson. [...]
There’s a story in today’s New York Times about a new approach to transplanting livers. Rather than taking the recipient’s liver out completely, doctors remove only part of the recipient’s liver, and replace it with part of a donor liver. The science behind this procedure is the liver’s incomparable power to regenerate. The patient takes [...]
Dublin City Council has ruled an application for outline planning permission for a new three-storey radiation oncology structure at Beaumont Hospital ‘invalid’. The HSE development comprises the provision of Phase 2 radiation oncology facilities for the national plan for radiation oncology. The proposed 7,260sqm building is located directly adjacent to Phase 1 of the facilities, [...]
Doctors are smoking and drinking less than the rest of the population, but are average exercise takers, the concluding report from the IMT GP survey reveals Irish GPs are a relatively healthy bunch; they smoke and drink less than the national average — but when it comes to exercising, they are slightly below the norm. [...]
It seems some GPs do not make the best patients, with a third admitting they do not have a GP of their own and did not avail of the swine flu vaccine. In a poll conducted by Irish Medical Times, the majority of family doctors (67 per cent) reported having a GP of their own [...]
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