The Minister for Health has signed into law new requirements that make it mandatory for doctors to participate in professional competence schemes designed to ensure their skills and training are kept up to date. Minister Mary Harney has signed the commencement order which will bring into operation, from Saturday May 1, all remaining provisions of [...]
The HSE has named 15 firms in a new framework agreement, which will allow it to call on the services of any of the specialised management consultants during its ongoing transformation programme. Along with familiar Irish and Irish-based multinational firms, the Executive has included four UK-based companies on the panel. Cambridge Economic Policy Associates has [...]
All the latest news on residual cardiovascular risk Addressing residual cardiovascular risk In his latest Clinical Update, Gary Culliton reports on developments in the field of cardiology and he speaks to some Irish doctors who are involved in the Residual Risk Reduction Initiative Leading Irish consultants have joined forces with recognised specialists from 43 countries [...]
The Department of Health (DOH) has a printer for every 1.6 members of staff in Hawkins House and a photocopier for every 13 employees. The Department currently has 309 printers — 214 inkjet printers and 95 laser printers — which are shared by approx-imately 490 whole-time equivalent employees. Minister Mary Harney reveal-ed in the Dáil [...]
The Health Service Executive is putting in place a ‘protective’ plan to achieve savings of €200 million immediately. CEO Prof Brendan Drumm said the aim was to target cuts at back office operations. “We’re looking at where we can achieve savings with a minimal effect on frontline services,” Prof Drumm said. Industrial action by HSE [...]
Doctors have just over a one-in-60 chance of having a complaint made against them to the Medical Council in a given year, new figures reveal. In 2009, 295 complaints were received by Council and considered by its Preliminary Proceedings Committee (PPC). More than two-thirds of these cases related to either the professional standards of doctors [...]
Drogheda vasectomist Dr Oliver Lynn weighs up some of the options for couples who are wavering when it comes to vasectomy “It’s not what you know that makes the difference, it’s what you use” – Zig Ziglar As a vasectomist in active practice, I often encounter couples that have been considering vasectomy for quite a [...]
Researchers in the Mater Hospital are reporting a worrying increase in mumps-related testicular problems among young males Urologists at a leading Irish hospital have reported an alarming increase in the number of teenage boys and young men developing mumps orchitis, in a paper published in the April issue of the Journal of the British Association [...]
Prof Eoin O’Brien focuses on the consequences of blood-pressure fluctuations on cardiovascular outcomes We have recently seen a virtual deluge of papers (six in all) in two of the world’s most prestigious journals – The Lancet and Lancet Neurology — on an often-neglected aspect of blood pressure, namely its variability and the consequences of fluctuations [...]
The Minister for Education has requested the Higher Education Authority (HEA) and the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland (NQAI) to carry out an external review of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in relation to the commencement of its degree-awarding powers. The RCSI is a constituent college of the National University of Ireland (NUI) [...]
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