GPs have voted in favour of a ground-breaking merger between Helix Health and Health Ireland Partners, reports Irish Medical Times. The GP IT landscape in Ireland was transformed last weekend when doctors voted in favour of a merger between rival practice management software companies Helix Health and Health Ireland Partners, in a deal that will [...]
I had taken five minutes for a cup of tea and a few pages of a novel, The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova (about that early, if misguided, pioneer of inoculation, Dracula). Then I dragged myself away from it and returned to the large-scale BCG Clinic ready for action. The nurse brought the next mother, with [...]
Terence Cosgrave talks to Dr Rima Rudd — one of the world’s leading experts on health literacy — and discovers that Ireland has a long way to go in improving literacy and communication. How many doctors would be prepared to start a consultation by asking a patient if they had any questions? Many would say [...]
Dr Paul Stewart tells how an embarrassing — and somewhat painful — incident at work helped to improve his relationship with his teenage son. Ihad taken five minutes for a cup of tea and a few pages of a novel, The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova (about that early, if misguided, pioneer of inoculation, Dracula). Then [...]
Dr Mick Molloy writes that our broken economy obviously needs fixing … but, in the aftermath of all the recent financial scandals, where can we go from here? As financial revelations pile up, one might wonder what any of the regulators, ombudsmen or overseers have been doing for the last four decades. There have been [...]
Elaine Healy of Beauchamps Solicitors gives us an overview of the law in Ireland regarding teenagers and when they can consent to, or refuse, medical treatment In England recently, a Care Trust withdrew its application to force a 13-year-old girl to have a heart transplant. The child involved refused to consent to the surgery as [...]
Gary Culliton reports on the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, which will deal with training and accreditation. The Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine was launch-ed on December 16. The Faculty includes four bodies, namely the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland, the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, the Royal College of Surgeons and [...]
Dr Garrett FitzGerald writes that those of you who have lost your hair may be unnerved by some recent findings from the University of Nottingham. An old acquaintance from my school days, who went bald when he was young and who is generally regarded as being quite mad from an early age, found himself quite [...]
Dr Mark Hannon says that medical training schemes will have to change if patients in Ireland are ever to get the healthcare service that they expect and that they deserve. As so often happens, the mainstream press (in this case, The Irish Times) has recently highlighted a healthcare issue that has been apparent to healthcare [...]
Nobody likes the guy who has just come home after an extended stay abroad. All he wants to talk about is how everything is better over there – wherever there is. So I shall try to stay away from comparisons – particularly regarding public transport – between Vienna and Dublin. I have lived the last [...]
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