Irish Medical Times Editor Colin Kerr says the first weeks of Mary Harney’s second term of office as Minister for Health indicates that she may adopt a more conciliatory approach The Minister for Health Mary Harney has wasted no time in stamping her authority following her re-appointment as Minister for Health. Following the suspension of [...]
The dust has finally settled on another exciting election campaign, and with Mary Harney once again donning the mantle of Minister of Health, we can now recommit ourselves to the issues that were occupying our minds before the election. Industrial relations is still the hot topic within the HSE, with various disputes simmering away. The [...]
Primary care employment is made up of two teams; GP-employed and Health Service Executive-employed workers. It simply makes sense that both sets of workers are looking after the SAME population. GPs are subject to difficulties working with public health nurses who are allocated on a geographical basis, straddling several practices: The GP has to liaise [...]
The appointment of Green Party ministers to deal primarily with energy, the environment and local government is a clear signal that the Greens’ strategy is to try to make a difference in a few key areas that are close to its heart, rather than spreading itself thinly across too many policy sectors. On health, the [...]
Dear Editor, The €100 million capital underspending by the Health Service Executive (HSE) is completely unacceptable– especially in light of vital capacity needs it displayed an organisational inability to channel funding to badly needed developments. The disastrous PPARS project demonstrated the HSE’s unwelcome ability to waste money and in light of this underspending it is [...]
Dear Editor, As did most of my GP colleagues I recently received an e-mail from the ICGP advising me to apply for specialist registration in order to comply with the new Medical Practitioners Bill. Can anyone clarify what the situation is with regards locums? Do they have to be on the specialist register to work [...]
Dear Editor, Comments from the Chief Medical Scientist at the National Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Reference Laboratory that the facility is “in dire straits”, are of very serious concern. The calls by Dr Angela Rossney for additional investment should be heeded and acted on as a matter of urgency. The fact of the matter is [...]
Dear Editor, With reference to the recent article on laser treatment in the Irish Medical Times (25 May 2007) we would like to highlight the lack of evidence for the effective treatment of active acne with pulse dye laser including Nlite. The effectiveness of this laser as demonstrated in the original Lancet paper for the [...]
We are told that more money is being spent on the health services than ever before yet we are handing money back to the Government because it cannot be spent. That is the message I got when I read that the capital budget for 2006 could not be spent and that money would be given [...]
Irish Medical Times Editor Colin Kerr says the new Government must deliver on promises and resolve burning issues in health care before we have a system worthy of being called ‘world class’ We finally have a new government. It might not be the government that everybody wanted, but the vagaries of the proportional representation system [...]
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