The RCPI’s Faculty of Public Health Medicine has said it is essential parents fully embraced the HPV vaccination programme for their daughters. “What remains essential is that women aged 25-60 years take up their invitation from CervicalCheck and that parents embrace fully the HPV vaccination programme for their daughters,” Dean of the Faculty Dr Patricia [...]
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) remains a ‘very real and continuing threat’ to public health and recent developments strongly support predictions of second and third waves of long incubation vCJD, an international expert has warned. Dr Robert Rohwer, Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, told a patient safety conference in London earlier [...]
The Medical Council is considering producing a second ‘Ethical Guide’ concerning standards of practice, to go alongside its current Guide to Professional Conduct and Ethics, Irish Medical Times has learned. Medical Council President Prof Kieran Murphy confirmed that a second publication was currently under consideration, and was in fact required under the new Medical Practitioners [...]
The HSE does not expect compliance with the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) to be achieved until the fourth quarter of 2010, despite the EU having already issued a warning on the issue. According to its new service plan, the requirement to comply with the EWTD poses ‘risks’ to the HSE in terms of its [...]
HPAT – Special Report Irish Medical Times has partnered with the Institute of Education to bring you a second week of sample questions from the Institute’s HPAT mock materials The Institute of Education has been running HPAT preparation courses since the test was introduced in Ireland, and it offers a HPAT module as an option [...]
A new crackdown on wait-ing lists, involving a controversial ‘forced NTPF’ policy involving offending hospitals having to pay for procedures in other facilities, has been launched by the HSE. Under the new get-tough plan, penalties will apply to a hospital whenever it is given a red light by the Executive’s HealthStat system for three consecutive [...]
The Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) has accused the Health Service Executive (HSE) of providing the Dáil Public Accounts Committee with ‘inaccurate and grossly misleading’ data regarding the ratio of public to private practice undertaken by hospital consultants. IHCA Assistant Secretary General, Donal Duffy pointed out that the Executive had suggested that a number of [...]
An organisation launched this week aims to offer support and accreditation to registered nurses and is dedicated to the specialty practice of infusion therapy – administering medication by IV or subcutaneous injection. The Irish and UK International Affiliate of the Infusion Nurses Society (INS) was launched at a reception at the RCSI on Monday by [...]
The independent review set up to examine whether a further investigation into the case of former Drogheda surgeon Michael Shine would be of ‘public benefit’ is seeking submission from interested parties. Chaired by retired High Court judge, Mr Justice T.C. Smyth, the review has set a deadline of March 3 for the receipt of submission, [...]
Some generic drugs are now 50 per cent more expensive than their branded equivalents — a situation ‘unique in Europe’, the Clinical Director of the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics has told Irish Medical Times. Describing this as ‘an extraordinary situation’, Dr Michael Barry stated that while GPs were prescribing generic medicines, the patient would pay [...]
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