There is no doubt that doctors are in the middle of the most challenging of times facing the profession for many generations, the new RCSI President has stated. That was one of the messages delivered to graduates by Ms Eilis McGovern during the College’s postgraduate conferring ceremony on July 12.
The HSE has stated its intention to allow patients access the Cardiac Cath Lab at Waterford Regional Hospital on a round-the-clock basis.
The National Advisory Committee on Drugs (NACD) is commissioning research on the methods and data sources used to estimate drug use, Irish Medical Times has learned. The two-month project will determine the number of problem opiate and cocaine users and the prevalence of opiate and cocaine use in the country — one of five key [...]
The cuts introduced under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) Act last year penalised patients and reduced service availability, according to the Irish Medical Organisation.
GPs may leave the public Mother and Infant Care Scheme because of the cost burden following an 8 per cent fee cut last year, it has emerged. A submission by the Irish Medical Organisation to the Department of Health on the consultation process to review measures taken under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public [...]
The management of waste in medicine must be addressed urgently, ICGP President Dr Brendan Day has told the Department of Health. In a sent letter to the Department in a personal capacity, the Athenry GP said he realised that “many of our patients have suffered significantly greater hardship than we have”, but that “in these [...]
Consultants have been singled out for “penal treatments” by the Departments of Health and Finance over the past 20 months, IHCA Secretary General Finbarr Fitzpatrick has claimed.
The IMO has requested that the National Cancer Screening Service (NCSS) make available the economic analysis that formed the basis for the cuts in GP fees set by the Service. The Organisation made the request in a recent submission to the Department of Health and Children on the consul-tation to review fee cuts under the [...]
The Chair of the IMO NCHD Committee has told Irish Medical Times that the increase in vacant NCHD posts has not reached crisis point — yet. “I haven’t heard personally of any place that has gone to meltdown yet, but I’ve heard of a few places where people are plugging gaps and are a bit [...]
The Health Service Executive (HSE) is exploring the option of involving the private sector in the provision and management of multi-storey car-parking facilities at a number of acute hospitals in the west of Ireland.
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