Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent Labour Court decision in which a determination on an appeal against a Rights Commissioner’s recommendation was within the statutory time limit On June 13, 2008 the Rights Commissioner issued his recommendation in a case taken by the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) on behalf of a nurse employed in [...]
Greg Baxter writes on the evolution of the IHCA since its first AGM 20 years ago Prof John Fielding, the first president of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, told Irish Medical Times twenty years ago: “We are at a stage in our history where consultants are a threatened species… Any attempt to dictate standards by [...]
Eilish Foran, a first-year graduate medical student, University of Limerick writes that while she didn’t learn a lot about medicine in Zanzibar, she did have a rewarding and enlightening experience Hakuna matata… no worries. That’s how life is in Zanzibar. If the pace gets much slower, it may just stop altogether. Stonetown is an extraordinary [...]
Madeleine Delaney of Beauchamps Solicitors outlines the framework suggested by the Law Reform Commission for the introduction of legisation on Advanced Care Directives The Law Reform Com-mission (LRC) is an independent statutory body whose main role is to keep the law under review and to make proposals for reform. On September 16, 2009 the LRC’s [...]
Headache sufferers in Europe wait an average of nine years between their first consultation with a health professional and being prescribed preventive medication, reports Dara Gantly Almost six out of ten patients across Europe who suffer from headaches are dissatisfied with the treatment of their condition, according to a new survey by the European Headache [...]
Terence Cosgrave says that outlandish claims about Lisbon are now being used to create media ‘stories’ I had decided not to comment on the Lisbon Treaty this week as I think I had made pretty clear what my position was on the matter and no further clarification was needed. Indeed, further comment, I decided, would [...]
By 2010 the number of overweight children in the European Union will be increasing at a rate of one million per year. Niamh Mullen reports Changes must be made to children’s lifestyles — particularly the hours they spend watching television aspiring to be celebrities — if childhood obesity is to be tackled. That is the [...]
In its proposed cuts, An Bord Snip Nua went much further than the Department of Health initially recommended, reports Dara Gantly No one could accuse Colm McCarthy’s An Bord Snip Nua of employing the political tactic of proposing gradual reform over time in the hope that nobody notices, or that those that do notice do [...]
Dr Garrett FitzGerald writes that regardless of whether your health cover is Plan A, Plan B or whatever, it seems that the Minister has no proper plans for the health system at all The season was poor enough in Kerry. Foreign cars were as rare as hen’s teeth. Visitors stayed away this year. It looks [...]
Dr Mark Hannon highlights a number of serious problems in the implementation of rosters that aim to comply with the European Working Time Directive As the battle between the HSE and the IMO on the implementation of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) winds its way tortuously through various court actions with no end in [...]
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