Colin Kerr says it is now time for all Irish doctors to put pressure on managers and decision makers to invest in IT systems that will help to bring the Irish health service into the 21st Century For many doctors, the evolution of information technology has opened up new and exciting opportunities. Electronic prescribing is [...]
Dear Editor, A recent article entitled ‘Electronic prescribing to become reality’ (Irish Medical Times, 12 January 2007) discussed our company, Quantum Healthcare Informatics. This contained factual errors in relation to both our company and the sale of our GP Clinical contracts book in January 2005. Quantum Healthcare Informatics was not taken over by Medicom. Quantum [...]
Dear Editor, The cancellation of operations is a symptom of the serious problems in the health sector which are preventing the delivery of a decent service to patients. The bed shortage, a major factor in the A&E crisis, is leading not only to hundreds of patients on trolleys each day but also to the cancellation [...]
I was lucky enough to be off for a few days over the Christmas period, giving me a chance to meet up with some of my non-medical friends. This is always a refreshing experience because when the conversation turns to healthcare and the travails of our health service, these friends have views and opinions that [...]
Apart from all the other wrongs that consultants have apparently committed in recent years, they are now responsible for “blocking the recruitment of more staff in protest at plans to make them work evenings and weekends, as if nobody could get sick while they’re off playing golf”. This is a quote from a recent letter [...]
Dear Editor, Age Action welcomes proposals by the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to increase funding for rural transport services. If more funding is available for night time services to support local pubs, we believe more thought should be given to expanding rural transport in daylight hours. The Rural Transport Initiative has been [...]
Our article “Nurse Practitioners: ANP led services can make major contribution” (Irish Medical Times, 24 November 2006) stated that 1,577 patients who attended the emergency department with minor injury/illness between July 2005 and February 2006 were suitable for treatment by ANP. However, the research study actually showed that 1,577 patients with minor injury/illness who presented [...]
Dear Editor, The Taoiseach, on a recent visit to Roscommon, was reported to have said that any talk of downgrading Roscommon Hospital was “way off the mark” and that the future of the hospital is secure. I do not feel reassured by the Taoiseach’s comments. I believe the threat to Roscommon Hospital is very real. [...]
Dear Editor, I have written directly to the Taoiseach to express my distress at Government policies with regard to services at Monaghan General Hospital. This is an edited copy of the letter. Dear Taoiseach, I write to you in desperation regarding the situation affecting the hospital services in this region. Neither I, nor the general [...]
Colin Kerr says the controversy over siting a new national children’s hospital could spark an embarrassing u-turn by the Government on the Mater choice Just when Minister for Health Mary Harney thought that 2007 might bring better news than the previous 12 months, the board of Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Dublin go [...]
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