More than 2,000 people die annually from stroke, which is higher than the number of deaths from breast cancer, prostate cancer and bowel cancer combined. Minister for Health Mary Harney has announced that the long-awaited national cardiovascular strategy, originally promised in May 2008, is going to cabinet this week. The news was announced as over [...]
The cervical cancer vaccination of almost 30,000 teenage girls will begin in secondary schools across the country next month. Seanad spokesperson on Health and Social Protection, Phil Prendergast, has called on the Minister for Health ‘to follow through on the programme by recruiting more nurses; otherwise other areas of healthcare will be hit’. The Senator [...]
Gladiatorial disputes between the HSE and the Department of Health lay at the heart of Prof Tom Keane’s move to withdraw as a candidate to be the next HSE Chief Executive, sources have told IMT. The Board felt it could not give guarantees on national and cross-agency issues or ring-fenced health budgets – matters heavily [...]
The HSE has welcomed last night’s agreement with the unions, which ‘in principle’ enables an 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. rostered working in the health service. The HSE said this was ‘an extremely important milestone for the future direction of the health services.’ More patients will be seen and greater access to community services will [...]
The HSE has been granted planning permission from Dublin City Council to develop a three-storey, 3,900sqm community primary care and mental health centre in Ballyfermot, Dublin. Located on the Upper Ballyfermot Road in the north-eastern corner of the Cherry Orchard Hospital campus, the development will also include a 600sqm single-storey crèche in a separate building. [...]
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has published its guidance for the HSE on the review of serious incidents including the deaths of children in care. The guidance is produced in response to the Department of Health’s implementation plan to the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse. The guidance makes a [...]
Many beds returning to the system as a result of fewer delayed hospital discharges – following the introduction of the Fair Deal programme – will be lower-cost day beds and five-day beds, rather than seven-day inpatient beds, said John Hennessy, HSE Regional Director of Operations. “The beds returning to the system through the Fair Deal [...]
A Dublin-based financial services company is offering new income protection cover that will pay doctors from the first day they cannot work. Omega Financial Manage-ment has announced that for the first time in Ireland, doctors will be able to avail of ‘day one’ income protection cover, which pays a replacement income to those unable to [...]
Some €3.85 million of Irish Aid funding has been allocated for the support of HIV/AIDS initiatives in Lesotho for 2010. The figure was announced to coincide with the visit of Peter Power, Minister of State for Overseas Development, to the country last week. Since Irish Aid’s inception in June 2006, almost 35,000 people have received [...]
Ireland will be the venue for the annual World Congress for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus this year. Hosted by Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (SBHI), the event will be held in Dublin at the City West Hotel on June 11 and 12. This year’s congress will focus on new advances on intervention techniques and treatments. George [...]
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