The outgoing CEO of the Health Service Executive has suggested that a resource allocation model where money ‘follows the patients’ may only prove successful if hospitals or the newly established Integrated Service Areas (ISAs) can be run as individual businesses.
The IMO has warned that further cuts in GP fees will “jeopardise the planned transformation programme” and move the GP service to an “increasingly reactive model”.
The IHCA was to raise concerns on private practice at a meeting of the Public/Private Practice Measurement Committee this Wednesday, July 28.
By Gary Culliton Dr Frank Dolphin has been appointed the next Chairman of the Health Service Executive (HSE) to succeed Mr Liam Downey who has completed two terms as Chairman. Dr Dolphin will take up the position with effect from August 15. “Dr Dolphin has highly relevant, wide-ranging experience in his business career, academic accomplishments [...]
The Department of Health is to explore alternative means of financing projects no longer described as ‘key priorities’, such as the relocation of Dublin’s maternity hospitals.
The IMO has reiterated to the Department of Health that consultant psychiatrists who attend mental health tribunals are independent of the Mental Health Commission (MHC) and the Department.
Four additional primary care teams for Clondalkin were officially launched by Health Minister Mary Harney last week (Friday). The four new teams will work with the existing team from the Dunawley/Deansrath region in forming the Health and Social Care Network for the area.
Further cuts in GP fees would be “the last straw” for doctors, with some feeling “disengaged” from the process of primary care development and others describing the current consultation process with the Department of Health as mere “window dressing”.
The Medical Council is expected to visit Bahrain within the next six months to review RCSI Bahrain, Prof William Powderly has told Irish Medical Times.
The Medical Council has appointed an Assistant National Director operating within the HSE’s Children & Families Social Services Directorate as its new Chief Executive.
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