Susan Delaney, Bereavement Services Manager with the Irish Hospice Foundation, presents a model of how different people respond to bereavement and how GPs might respond to the needs of bereaved patients
HSE set to tackle issue of consultants’ insurance forms
July 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The HSE is introducing measures to ensure that consultants sign health-insurance claim forms as quickly as they should, writes Gary Culliton The Health Service Executive is introducing incentives for consultants to sign their insurance claim forms on a timely basis, along with a major crackdown on those consultants who do not, IMT has learned. The [...]
5% of health staff should go
July 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
An Bord Snip Nua has recommended that 6,168 staff in the health service should be axed in order to make savings of €1,230 million a year. This amounts to more than 5 per cent of the entire workforce. With health service employees currently at the record level of 111,800 — an increase of 18,804, or [...]
Men’s sexual health – an overview
June 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Dr Andrew Rynne takes a look back at the history of men’s sexual health over the last 40 years and concludes that we have come a long way It is funny, the things that you never forget. It was 1968 and we were gathered in the lecture hall of the Rotunda Hospital. The speaker was [...]
Education in sports and exercise medicine at NUIG
May 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Dr Aideen Henry writes about the growing medical specialty of sports and exercise medicine and outlines the undergraduate and postgraduate study programmes in NUI Galway Sports and exercise medicine has become a rapidly growing medical specialty around the world, as it is realised that the practice of sports and exercise medicine requires the application of [...]
Review to examine effect of closure
May 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The HSE is conducting a clinical review of circumstances surrounding Dan McDonnell’s care and death, with specific reference to the impact the closure of the 24-hour ED at Ennis General Hospital had on his care. The coroner will conduct a formal investigation, if there is to be one. The HSE said it is satisfied that [...]
Woman dies from cancer after receiving ‘all-clear’ diagnosis
September 10, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A woman that was given the ‘all-clear’ from cancer in April 2007 was diagnosed as having terminal cancer four months later and died last April. On 25 April 2008 Ann Moriarty, aged 53, died in Cahercalla Community Hospital, Ennis, of metastatic breast cancer. However the previous summer, her husband claims, she had been the victim [...]
Students showcase software solutions
September 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Software systems which have been developed by UCC students could have a major positive impact on patient care. Students from University College Cork have developed innovative software systems that could change the way in which emergency units, sudden cardiac death levels and bed sores are managed across the health services. The students from the MBS [...]
Special Report: Still waiting for answers on suicide
August 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Irish Medical Times reports from an Oireactas meeting on suicide prevention and finds that answers are still not forthcoming on the progress of implementing the Reach Out report. There are just no answers to suicide. Or so it would seem. When the Director of the National Office of Suicide Prevention was asked to outline what [...]
Feature: Basic terms of employment
August 6, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Dairine Walsh, Solicitor with Beauchamps Solicitors, outlines the minimum requirements that employers must satisfy when hiring an employee either full time or part time. Every doctor who employs staff must give them the basic terms and conditions of their employment under the Terms of Employment (Information) Acts 1994-2001. The Act applies to all employers and [...]