By Lloyd Mudiwa. The HSE was advised against bringing any of the doctors recruited earlier this year from India and Pakistan to help relieve NCHD shortages into Ireland prior to their full registration, IMT has learned.
Kilkenny PCC reduces levels of psychiatric admissions
September 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Aoife Connors. the first co-located psychiatric clinic at the new Ayrfield Medical Park Primary Care Centre (PCC) in Kilkenny City has managed to reduce admissions to the local psychiatric services, with no admissions from the GP practices based at the PCC.
Full capacity protocol is strongly urged by IAEM
September 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. All hospitals with EDs must rigorously invoke their escalation policies up to and including use of the full capacity protocol (FCP), which involves moving trolley patients to wards, in order to meet the six-hour target for patients to be admitted to a hospital bed or discharged from the emergency department (ED), the [...]
Monaghan set to be hit by MIU cutbacks
September 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. the HSE is planning to change the opening time of the Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) at Monaghan to an eight-hour, five-day service and expects that this will take effect from October. “This change is to be viewed as a temporary measure and will be reviewed in 2012,” the Minister for Health Dr [...]
Breaking news: Bahraini medics incarcerated for up to 15 years
September 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Bahrain’s special security court today gave doctors and nurses who had treated injured protesters during the tiny island nation’s uprising earlier this year lengthy prison sentences and sentenced a protester to death for killing a policeman, according to media reports.
New GP contract urged by the HSE
September 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Dara Gantly. The HSE believes a new GP contract is critical for the further roll-out of primary care teams (PCTs) and the development of chronic disease programmes, IMT can exclusively reveal.
‘Real-time’ ED visibility — Reilly
September 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. The Department of Health now has full sight of inpatient waiting times and what is happening in hospital emergency departments (EDs) in “real time”, the Minister for Health has revealed.
HSE budget problems threaten services
September 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. The IMO has criticised the HSE’s decision not to progress recruitment for up to 1,000 service posts it was in the process of filling, even though they are exempt from the public service moratorium on recruitment, in a desperate bid to break even, saying it is only pushing budgetary problems down the [...]
Risk concerns highlighted by senior HIQA Director
September 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. A dispute over delays in tackling clinical risk at hospitals emerged prior to the departure of HIQA’s Director of Healthcare Quality and Safety, Jon Billings, documents seen by IMT reveal.
Audit to put Irish surgeons to fore of practice
September 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Irish surgeons participating in audits by the proposed National Office for Clinical Audit in Surgery (NOCAS) can be confident that they will be placed at the forefront of international best practice in surgical governance, the national training body for surgery in Ireland has said.
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