Dear Editor, The recent decision to close a full 10-bed ward in Nenagh Hospital is an indictment of the HSE and is symbolic of where they see our National Health Service going. It is now plain to see that Nenagh Hospital is being driven by the budget available rather than demand for services. That is [...]
Dear Editor, I read your recent article on serious deficits in medical education facilities in Ireland. Although I know this is as yet to be fully published, I thought your readers might be interested in changes occurring in the Australian undergraduate training programme. The boom in the resources sector here has created increasing wealth in [...]
The latest freeze on recruitment is clearly having an effect on patient care. But the number of patients who are not receiving timely treatment compared to those that are, is few. At least this is what the Department of Health has been reminding us of for the past few weeks. Spokespersons have been quoted as [...]
Terence Cosgrave welcomes Mary Harney’s speech at the IHCA banquet which indicated a desire to have consultant involvement in health decisions — once they sign up to a new contract Last Saturday night the Minister for Health Mary Harney began her address to the IHCA banquet by referring to “our rendezvous with reality,” as she [...]
The joke I saw in Private Eye recently caught my attention as being sadly relevant not only to the changed times we live in but to certain features of the tragic McCann case. A young doctor, stethoscope draped over his shoulders, is bending solicitously over a child who looks up at the doctor and asks [...]
Dear Editor, As dermatologists with no financial interest in the laser industry, we stand by our opinion that N-lite is relatively ineffective for acne vulgaris. The two small studies (41 and 40 patients respectively) have shown contradictory results as outlined in Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin (October 2004).
I was recently in the US for a short trip which proved interesting and informative. Few places in the world offer as much variety in terms of culture, music, architecture and overall life experience as the States. However, to listen to commentators in Ireland talking about the US, one would be forgiven for thinking it [...]
Dear Editor, The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) welcomes the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Mr Brian Lenihan’s commitment in his recent address to the Dáil to prioritise the monitoring of sex offenders and to co-operate with the newly established Cosc Office, which has been recently set up to support victims of domestic, [...]
When any service changes direction cutbacks will be announced. But what do they mean for the health service? This is a pertinent question given the column inches allocated to overspends in the health service and how belts will have to be tightened — an unfortunate phrase given what a previous health minister had asked of [...]
Dear Editor, Smokers are up to four times more likely to lose their sight to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) — the leading cause of blindness in people over the age of 50 — than people who have never smoked. The worrying fact is that people remain unaware of this danger. However, research from Scotland, Australia [...]
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