By Aoife Connors. The ICGP has appointed Dr Brid Hollywood, a Dublin-based GP, as the GP Lead in Mental Health.
New GP referral forms are ‘joined-up’ thinking in action
January 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Aoife Connors speaks to Dr Marie Laffoy about the development of the recently announced electronic GP referral forms and plans to extend the template in the near future The HSE Quality and Clinical Care Directorate (QCCD) recently announced details of a new electronic GP referral programme to secondary care that is being established. Meanwhile, in [...]
Assay could represent big breakthrough in MS
December 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A promising assay could reduce the risk of serious brain infection in MS patients on Tysabri, Senior Vice President and Global Head, Drug Safety and Risk Management, for Biogen Idec Dr Carmen Bozic tells Lloyd Mudiwa An investigational assay that detects anti-JC virus (JCV) may provide a means to determine which multiple sclerosis (MS) patients [...]
IMO establishes its rules of engagement
November 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In part two of his exclusive interview with IMT, IMO President Prof Seán Tierney tells Lloyd Mudiwa about the organisation’s pivotal role in informing health policy and ‘constructive engagement’ with the HSE and the Department of Justice on migrant doctors “I think what we have a responsibility to do is not just to criticise, but [...]
HIQA calculate ‘cost per life gained’
July 31, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Gary Culliton reports on HIQA’s Health Technology Assessment Directorate, which is charged with establising the cost-effectiveness of new public initiatives. A Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is about more than deciding whether a programme is cost-effective. HIQA’s cervical cancer HTA recently concluded that vaccinating all 12-year-old girls against HPV, would cost about €12m per year. The [...]
Vhi boss confident of seeing off competitors
July 6, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Sandra Ryan speaks to Mr Jimmy Tolan, Chief Executive of Vhi Healthcare, about the changes taking place in the health insurance market. New Vhi Healthcare Chief Executive Jimmy Tolan, who throughout our interview is admirably pleasant and talkative, doesn’t change his tone (or mince his words) when criticising the competition. In fact, it almost appears [...]
Pharmacists face negative equity
June 10, 2008 By 1 Comment
Gary Culliton speaks to Mr Jim Canavan, UniPhar CEO, about how pharmacies have reduced in value over the last 18 months . Pharmacies may have reduced in value by one third over the last 18 months and young pharmacists who bought businesses within the last two years may be looking at negative equity, because of [...]
Community services to grow
June 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Greg Baxter spoke to Mr Jim Joyce, CEO of Point of Care, a company whose specialist infusion clinics spare patients from making trips to hospital. The opening of the second Point of Care clinic – a specialist nursing infusion centre in west Dublin marks the beginning of what is expected to be a rapid national [...]
Ireland must fight for devices industry
June 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Greg Baxter spoke to Dr John O’Dwyer about how competition from other countries may threaten Ireland’s medical devices industry. Ireland could lose irrevocable ground to Poland and the Czech Republic if it does not reduce bureaucracy in clinical trials for medical devices, Irish Medical Times has been told. Dr John O’Dwyer, Medical Director, Medical Devices [...]
‘Hollywood ending’ for radiotherapy plan?
May 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Greg Baxter heard good news about the progress of the national radiotherapy plan, when he spoke with Prof Donal Hollywood at the sixth International Cancer Conference. The chairman of one of the most important strategy documents in the history of Irish healthcare stood before a mostly empty room in Dublin Castle last week (it was [...]
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