Ed Madden, BL, looks at a UK case in which a care home appealed against a decision of an employment tribunal that its decision to dismiss a support worker at the home was unfair. Ms D. E. Smith was employed as a support worker at a care home for elderly people run by Community Integrated [...]
The world record for the longest conversation held between two or more people speaking at the same time while wagging fingers at each other was broken on RTE’s Questions and Answers last week. The conversation was held between Willie O’Dea and everyone else in the room. The prize for breaking the record is dubious, however. [...]
Dr Mark Hannon says that there is much more to hospital hygiene than targeting doctors’ ties and toasters. Now that we have felt the inevitable pain of Brian Lenihan’s first Budget and know what is in store for our wage packet for the foreseeable future, it’s back to business as usual for all of us. [...]
Dr Garett FitzGerald wonders where all the female doctors have disappeared to these days, especially considering that almost 60 per cent of medical graduates are female. All you bright young female docs, please phone home. Where are you at all? Almost sixty per cent of medical graduates of the last two decades are female, yet [...]
Terence Cosgrave says that the attempts of the Government to find a scapegoat for its decision to abolish the over-70s’ automatic entitlement to a medical card will not change the fact that it will have to reverse its decision. As I write, it seems that Mr Cowen’s Government is about to reverse its decision on [...]
Dear Sir, Dr Michael Corry (IMT, October 17, page 40, www.imt.ie/clinical/mental-health-cns/ect-debate-continues-in-the-se-1.html) continues to wage war on ECT. His crusade against the so-called ‘medical model’ (now subsumed under the broader ‘bio-psycho-social’ approach of modern psychiatry) goes back many years. Some readers will recall Mick’s photograph in the newspapers during the 1970s, where he is seen burning [...]
Next year, the private sector will begin construction of 200 primary care centres across the country, on behalf of the HSE, Health Minister Harney said on Budget day. This will involve investment of €1.5 billion. A total of 50 of these will come on stream in 2010. The remainder will be fully constructed by 2011, [...]
It has come to something when a highly successful political machine threatens to seize up completely in the face of an entirely predictable backlash from a Budget decision to end the automatic entitlement of people over 70 to a full medical card. Panic has gripped the Government backbenches and it threatens to destroy Brian Cowen’s [...]
There was palpable anger from many doctors at the Rural, Island and Dispensing Doctors’ conference, which took place last weekend, at the decision to withdraw the medical card for the over-70s. But then, others were more phlegmatic about the issue as it would have had little impact on them, and in any case, they felt [...]
Rory Hafford continues his Medical Communications series with a look at an evidence-based approach to crisis management. Turn on any radio station, or flick through the pages of any newspaper and you are sure to find it… the daily attack on the HSE. Poor ol’ Prof Drumm seems to be fighting a rearguard action from [...]
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