The number of Primary Care Teams that are holding clinical team meetings in the Louth Local Health Office area was zero, according to the Health Service Executive’s Performance Report for December. The report says, “The holding of clinical team meetings by Primary Care Teams is crucial to the development and implementation of care plans for [...]
The IMO President has signed the European Road Safety Charter on behalf of the union, giving a three-year commitment to continue promoting road safety. Prof Seán Tierney signed the Charter last week (May 19, 2010) at a ceremony in Dublin, held in conjunction with the Department of Transport and the European Commission’s services for mobility [...]
The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has accepted the Croke Park proposals on public sector pay and reform, following meetings of its four craft groups last week. GPs, consultants, public health doctors and NCHDs at meetings on Thursday, May 20, discussed the details of the proposals and returned a result in favour of acceptance. The IMO [...]
The HSE’s decision to dismantle the Medical Card Dental Scheme is ‘unsafe, unworkable and unethical’, according to the Irish Dental Association (IDA). The scheme will be reduced to providing limited emergency cover for card holders. There has been an increase of 138,000 medical card-holders in the last two years and 144,000 more people will join [...]
Top HSE officials were due to gather at Farmleigh House in the Phoenix Park this week for the second in a series of strategic health-planning workshops. Part of a major consultative process on the HSE’s next three-year Corporate Plan, due out in 2011, the meeting on Thursday, May 27, has been organised for staff in [...]
Waiting times across the country for some critical diagnostics procedures exceed international standards by more than a year, according to new figures obtained by IMT. In UCH Galway, patients must wait 450 days for routine MRI scans, compared to a HSE target of 70 days. Patients must wait 305 days for ultrasound tests at Limerick [...]
The Chairman of the IMO NCHD Committee has described recent predictions of an impending crisis in NCHD numbers as a ‘phoney war’. Dr Matt Sadlier told IMT that it would probably only be in the week before the July changeover that a definite idea of the numbers would emerge, and thus the possible implications for [...]
The HSE Annual Report for 2009, including the Executive’s audited annual financial statements (AFS), was submitted to the Minister for Health last Friday, May 21, Irish Medical Times has learned. Under the Health Act 2004, the Executive must prepare and adopt a report on the performance of its functions during the preceding year by no [...]
It is because of expected reductions in applications for NCHD posts – and not because of budgetary challenges – that the HSE is seeking “reductions in tiered on-call and improved cross-cover arrangements”, Health Minister Harney has claimed. Speaking in the Dáil, she said: “Instead of cases being referred through successive tiers of doctors, we need [...]
According to the Department of Health in the UK, 4,422 women with Irish addresses travelled to England and Wales for an abortion in 2009, a drop of 178 women compared to 2008 figures. Women between 20 and 29 years old accounted for 2,398 abortions. Under-16s accounted for 38 abortions; 16- and 17-years olds for 155; [...]
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