By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie The HSE is seeking expressions from companies interested in providing the largest State agency with comprehensive insurance services in an accelerated tender process. According to its National Service Plan for 2010, the HSE requires further economies to the value of €106 million under its Value for Money programme, including €10 million [...]
By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie A moratorium that inhibits the health service’s ability to deliver care is flawed, the Chairman of Leopardstown Park Hospital has said. Welcoming the strong commitment to “frontline services” made by HSE CEO Cathal Magee in his submission to the Oireachtas Health Committee, Eugene F Magee, on Monday said his namesake had [...]
A new surgical education initiative developed by the RCSI will help prevent infection in patients following surgery. The Surgical Development Initiative is in line with the World Health Organization’s recent prioritisation of patient safety to prevent healthcare-associated infection (HCAI) as part of its ‘Safe Surgery Saves Lives’ initiative.
The HSE has said that the transfer date for NCHDs proceeded as planned last week and that it is continuing to monitor the situation closely. While it could not put an exact figure on the number of unfilled posts across the country, a spokesperson told Irish Medical Times that the situation was likely to “remain [...]
The implementation of ‘A Vision for Change’ continues to be “slow, uneven and unsatisfactory to service users and their families”, according to the College of Psychiatry of Ireland (CPI).
The number of patients on the orthopaedic waiting list at Our Lady’s Hospital, Crumlin, has reduced by 39 per cent since May 2009, the Health Minister has revealed. At that time, there were 287 patients on the list. In May 2010, this number was 174 patients, Minister Harney told the Dáil. Fine Gael’s Fergus O’Dowd [...]
Any decision by the HSE to directly bill private patients unnecessarily would be a “breach of Vhi Healthcare’s long-standing direct payment arrangement with HSE hospitals”, the health insurer has said. The comments come as the Executive is considering sending bills directly to patients in cases where a consultant has not signed an insurance claim-form within [...]
The HSE will shortly report on the extent of x-ray and imaging backlogs and radiology staffing shortages at hospitals across the country, Irish Medical Times has learned. The Hayes report – which focused on Tallaght Hospital – will not be published in the immediate future. However, new guidance has been issued to hospitals dealing with [...]
The first meeting of the country’s national clinical leads is to be held this Friday (July 2) at the HSE’s Dublin headquarters in Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Irish Medical Times has learned. The HSE has indicated that it wants to bring all the leads — which have been jointly appointed by the Executive and the RCPI [...]
A new Irish research project plans to determine the direct and indirect economic costs of overweight and obesity in Ireland. The study — which is being funded by Safefood, the Irish food safety promotion body — will be carried out across Northern Ireland and the Republic and will estimate the lost earnings due to sickness [...]
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