Gary Culliton reports on the Oireachtas Joint Health Committee’s recommendations to rejuvenate the flagging Primary Care Strategy The primary care strategy has come to a standstill and needs improvement, according to the Oireachtas Joint Health Committee. A new report by the committee says fewer centres that were ‘of higher quality’ would ‘encourage engagement by general [...]
Gary Culliton writes that a number of hospitals still have unacceptably long waiting lists that could be dealt with under the NTPF A patient on a waiting list to see a public-hospital consultant will not be treated by the same consultant in a private hospital under the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) as a result [...]
The HPAT may actually be less inclusive than the Leaving Certificate system and should have been introduced gradually, writes Dr Gerard Crotty Since 2009, aspiring undergraduate medical students applying to any of the medical schools in the Republic of Ireland need to sit the HPAT-Ireland examination in addition to the Leaving Certificate (LC). This has [...]
The Leaving Cert indirectly rewards desirable traits in future doctors, while the HPAT was devised to directly measure suitability for a career in medicine. Dr Siún O’Flynn reports Entry and selection to medical school has always been contentious because medical courses are always oversubscribed. It is only appropriate that the admission and selection processes to [...]
Dara Gantly believes the relocation of the Department of Health from Hawkins House is long overdue Sick building syndrome (SBS) is a combination of ailments associated with an individual’s place of work or residence. The causes are mainly related to poor indoor air quality, and symptoms can include dryness or irritation to ear, nose and [...]
Dr Mick Molloy highlights the work being done by volunteers in Haiti on his return from an aid mission in the devastated country Extreme events call for extreme responses and solutions. The earthquake that occurred in Haiti on January 12 has taught us that there really are very few countries prepared to respond to such [...]
The writing has appeared on the medical walls of our public hospitals and the doctors have been the first to see it, says Dr Garrett FitzGerald In the eighties, our CEO didn’t believe in private patients. Sure, he took the money they brought in; otherwise the SEHB would have gone bust. The till was ringing [...]
In the first of his new weekly columns for Irish Medical Times, Dr Ruairi Hanley says he belives the HSE has a seven-step plan to downgrading hospitals across the country The HSE has begun 2010 in style. Even by its low standards of incompetence, it has already managed to surpass itself. On January 20, the [...]
Michael O’Leary has really lost it this time. This is absolutely bonkers. And members of the Opposition who try to gain political capital from a mess that does not exist outside of O’Leary’s head should be warned that their self-respect is at stake. I say all this as a rabid anti-FF voter (I am an [...]
Dear Editor, With so many hospitals and aesthetic clinics in Ireland now providing obesity reduction as a therapy, physicians have a responsibility to their patients to estimate their risk of a future cardiovascular event. The most common method of assessing body weight in clinical practice is the body mass index (BMI), which is calculated by [...]
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