Just 15 hospitals have provided data to the HSE on the latest emergency department (ED) waiting times, well short of targets set out in the HSE’s Service Plan for 2010. The Department of Health had previously indicated that not extending total ED waiting- time measurement to 27 hospitals by the end of March would have [...]
The Minister for Health is expected to make a decision next week on whether to implement a further 8 per cent cut to GP incomes in mid-July, Irish Medical Times has learned. The Minister’s decision will be informed by submissions to the consultation process under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act, 2009. [...]
Brian Dobson has been announced as the MC for the 9th Annual Irish Healthcare Awards. This year’s ceremony – “In Search of Excellence” – is black-tie and will take place at the Shelbourne Hotel on October 28. Last year’s Irish Healthcare Awards saw a record number of entries — 116 — and a record number [...]
Two planning applications will be lodged by the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board in mid-July and mid-August, it has emerged. One application is for enabling works — which will include underground hospital support facilities, like car parking — and the other will be for the hospital buildings. The 16-storey hospital design will go to tender [...]
The HSE’s move to retain all existing training posts for a further year has probably “come too late” to fill vacant hospital places in July, the IHCA has stated. The Association maintains there could be a shortage of up to 600 NCHDs, come July. “People have already made arrangements…quite a number will go overseas,” Assistant [...]
The HSE is likely to pilot a uniform complaints investigation procedure in the near future, as part of a move to standardise protocols. Currently there are nine different policies in place within the HSE. A national working group was set up in 2009 to develop a standardised investigation process for the Executive that would be [...]
More than 95 per cent of patients want information on generic substitution from GPs rather than pharmacists, a survey by a Tralee-based general practice has found. The survey was conducted by GP Registrar Dr Peadar Ó Fionnain and Dr John Kenneth Holmes of the Brandon Medical Centre in Tralee as part of a research project [...]
The Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise (FTP) Committee heard 28 cases over 42 hearing days last year, new figures reveal. During the course of 2009, inquiries were heard in accordance with the provisions of both Part V of the Medical Practitioners Act, 1978 and Part 8 of the Medical Practitioners Act, 2007. Ten inquiries were [...]
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) is examining a new set of indicators for the ambulance service, according to its latest annual report. HIQA has also revealed that long-awaited laboratory and radiology coding and standards are to be published later this year, but that ‘epharmacy’ standards will not be published until 2011. The inventory [...]
The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has announced that John Horan has been appointed Chairman of the Fund, replacing John O’Dwyer. Horan has been a Board member of the NTPF since 2007 and was the founding Chief Executive of Veterinary Ireland in 2001 — a position he held until his retirement in December 2009. He [...]
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