We’ve had peace on this island for so long now that it’s hard to imagine a return to the murder and mayhem that blighted all our lives and tarnished our nation’s reputation for three decades. As Sinn Fein and the DUP edge closer to the inevitable sharing of power, their ability and willingness to work [...]
If I were a developer of a co-located hospital, I would be worried at present. With a general election looming, veiled threats are being issued by the opposition about plans for co-located facilities to the point that we cannot be sure that a new Government made up of the current opposition would proceed with any [...]
Dear Editor, I wish to highlight the South Infirmary-Victoria University Hospital’s concerns in relation to the findings of the Third Prevalence Survey of Healthcare Associated Infections in Acute Hospitals which was issued by the Health Service Executive (HSE). I now wish to challenge the basis and accuracy of this survey. I believe that the statistical [...]
Dear Editor, Can I, on behalf of the GP National Pensions Lobby, thank the very many GPs who responded to our letter canvassing support from all parts of Ireland. We also wish to thank all those who sent messages of support. The pension offered to general practitioners (many with years of service and still working) [...]
Dear Editor, I am writing to alert doctors of problems I have encountered with the new Mental Health Act. Recently, I was called out to a patient who needed to be admitted involuntarily because of an acute psychiatric disorder. His family and myself signed the appropriate forms as required. So far so good. The patient [...]
Colin Kerr expects questions about Minister Harney’s co-location plan will be increasingly raised by doctors and other voters as the general election draws nearer The Minister for Health, Mary Harney, has argued that co-location will improve services for all patients, particularly public patients at public hospital campuses. She has stated that the new co-located hospitals [...]
Dear Editor, We consultants are very fortunate to have our own Dreamgirls- the IHCA and IMO presidents! However, The Queen doesn’t want to negotiate seriously with us, preferring public castigation- Little Miss Sunshine she is not. In fact, both sides often seem to be speaking different languages- a veritable tower of Babel. However for the [...]
Meltdown is a term we normally associate with the nuclear industry, or breakfast croissants and melted cheese. It is not a term one would normally associate with medical recruitment in the UK. Modernising medical careers, or ‘MMC’ as it is dubbed, may as well be shortened to ‘FLOP’ such is the disappointment among junior doctors [...]
For any of you who attend the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) Continuing Medical Education (CME) meetings you may well have attended one entitled ‘Critical Case Analysis’. For the uninitiated, a critical case is defined as one that affects the GP over and above the routine; that has the potential to be examined and [...]
It seems that much media coverage over the last two to three weeks has focused on the length of the health service working week — nursing unions threatening industrial action over their claims for a 35-hour week; painstaking negotiation on the implementation of the European Working Time Directive; and continued difficulties in the negotiation of [...]
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