Ed Madden, BL, looks at the recent High Court judgment in the case brought by a number of pharmacists against the Health Service Executive. Patrick Hickey is a pharmacist and the majority shareholder of Drishlawn Ltd, a holding company which owns 24 pharmacies trading as ‘Hickey’s Pharmacies’. Earlier this year, Mr Hickey and a number [...]
On average, there is a four-year lag between the time when parents suspect their child may have a problem and the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), a new survey has revealed. A Survey of ADHD in Irish Children, published this week by two ADHD advocacy groups and paid for by Eli Lilly, looked [...]
No matter how quickly a patient is diagnosed or how suited the prescription is to treating their ailment, it may all go to waste if the patient cannot remember what the doctor has told them. All too often, patients cannot exactly recall what the doctor said or what they were supposed to do – even [...]
Dr Illona Duffy writes that Minister Harney and Prof Drumm must now take public responsibility for their decisions and should entr into real debate with the ntional media. Because of my husband’s fondness for the Daily Telegraph newspaper, I now get a chance to keep abreast of medical issues in the UK, which are extensively [...]
Terence Cosgrave speaks to Prof Shaun McCann about the work carried out at the National Stem Cell Transplant Centre. In 1995, the Minister for Health, Michael Noonan, asked Liam Dunbar, Chief Executive of St James’s Hospital, and Consultant Haematologist, Prof Shaun McCann to take over the Blood Transfusion Service Board (BTSB) during the hepatitis C [...]
Ian McGuinness reports that members of the North East Doctor on Call GP co-operative are worried about shortcomings in services that may occur under the HSE’s Transformation Programme. The HSE has been put on notice that North East Doctor on Call [NEDOC] is not going to be polyfilla for cracks in services,” the GP co-op’s [...]
It’s all clear now. But it’s too late, of course. There was something strange about your ordinary citizen having himself televised as he trudged triumphantly along the shores of the Black Sea, looking out for the best value in holiday villas in Bulgaria. A little three-bedroomed pad for escaping the dark winter days in Raheny [...]
Dr Mick Molloy writes that the Central Mental Hospital’s move to a new location should be based on providing the best possible service — not to make the management of the prison easier. The debate about The Central Mental Hospital moving to Thornton Hall received front page billing in Irish Medical Times but to be [...]
Gary Culliton on the NTPF’s announcement that a number of common procedures on the waiting list can now be done within two to five months. National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) Chief Executive Pat O’Byrne can now point to a number of waiting-list achievements. Of the 20 most common procedures, 19 can now be done within [...]
Last week, the Large Hadron Collider underneath the Swiss-French border went live, and, despite widely reported concerns that this gigantic microscope was actually a Doomsday machine, things have continued as normal. The most powerful machine ever built for investigating the secrets of the universe has not, as a tiny minority of ‘scientists’ had cautioned, upset [...]
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