By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie AMNCH Tallaght’s catering facilities were made “completely unoperational” following the fire at the end of July and the hospital has deemed an operational catering facility to be of “paramount priority” for care of patients. The hospital has finally begun the search for a contractor to rebuild the facility, and issued an [...]
By Dara Gantly dara.gantly@imt.ie Prof Cillian Twomey will deliver the 2010 IMO Doolin Memorial Lecture. The lecture — the title of which is ‘Healthcare Provision – Challenges and Opportunities’ — will take place in the RCSI, St Stephen’s Green on Saturday, December 4 at 11.45am, followed by lunch at 1pm. Prof Seán Tierney, IMO President, [...]
By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie The IMO has stepped up plans to involve medical students to a greater degree in the organisation, thus helping them advocate for adequate postgraduate training places and future career development for themselves, by sponsoring the inaugural Irish Medical Journal Inter-Medical School Debate. The Organisation, which will be holding the debate as [...]
By Gary Culliton gary.culliton@imt.ie An electronic, single referral system is being developed for GPs in the HSE South, which will enable doctors to make hospital referrals on-line directly from their surgery, view waiting lists and gain equal access to hospital consultants. The developments are part of the new hospital reconfiguration arrangements in the South, revealed [...]
By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie Providing smoking rooms at Cherry Orchard Hospital would entail sacrificing some beds, the HSE has said. Responding to a request by Dublin City Council’s Criona Ni Dhalaigh to provide proper shelter for smokers at Cherry Orchard Hospital, HSE Dublin Mid-Leinster Assistant National Director Mr Gerry O’Neill regretted that it was not [...]
By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie Kerry General Hospital generates an annual income of €382,129 from car parking fees, which are being utiltised to provide direct care at the hospital, the HSE has said. Ger Reaney, Interim Network Manager, Southern Hospitals Group, said the annual revenue generated by car parking fees at Kerry General was approximately €678,129, [...]
By Aoife Connors aoife.connors@imt.ie A new pilot patient satisfaction survey currently being undertaken at the Mallow Primary Healthcare Centre (MPHC) will feed into a new nationwide evaluation of primary care teams across the country planned by the HSE, Irish Medical Times has learned. The three parties involved in a pilot national patient satisfaction survey include [...]
By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie MRSA rates in public hospitals have decreased by 40 per cent since 2006, the HSE has said. “Both the 2009 and 2010 first- and second-quarter data show the continuation of this decrease in MRSA of over 40 per cent since 2006,” the HSE stated in its performance report for September 2010. [...]
By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie HSE South has indicated that it currently has 172 acute in-patient beds for mental health excess to requirements, with 32 excess beds in the Waterford/Wexford extended catchment area alone. “The recommendations indicate a requirement for 180 acute in-patient beds for HSE South. There are currently 352 acute in-patient beds,” said Anna-Marie [...]
By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie The regulatory authority for nurses and midwives, An Bord Altranais, faces a budget deficit next year owing to a drop in registered nurse numbers, even after it introduces a €3 increase on its annual retention fee, Irish Medical Times reports. This is notwithstanding the fact that the Bord has also received [...]
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