Dear Editor, I refer to a letter from Dr Billy O’Connell published in the June 4 edition of Irish Medical Times, entitled ‘Interview marking system must change’ (see www.imt.ie/opinion/2010/06/interview_marking_system_must.html). I would like to take this opportunity to update you and your readers on the efforts that have been made to date by the HSE to [...]
Dear Editor, As a recently retired Health Service Executive medical manpower manager, I am dismayed to see that the much-predicted non-consultant hospital doctor shortage crisis has in fact been allowed to happen, with nothing except improving the visa regulations and a one-year extension on recognition by the Medical Council being done to address this serious [...]
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent High Court case involving the parents of a man, with marriage difficulties, who died while undergoing cosmetic surgery at a hospital in Bogota, Colombia On September 3, 2007, Pierre Christian Lawlor died while undergoing cosmetic surgery at a hospital in Bogota, Colombia. Mr Lawlor had travelled to Colombia [...]
With Men’s Health Week just gone, Aoife Connors examines why we are seeing a rapid rise in the prevalence of prostate cancer Almost 5,500 Irish men are diagnosed with the five most common male cancers each year: prostate, bowel, lung, skin and testicular. Yet recent consumer research by the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) shows that [...]
Aoife Connors speaks to Beaumont consultant Kashif Siddiqui about the hospital’s rapid access prostate clinic Waiting times for prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment will be significantly reduced when an expanded rapid access prostate clinic in Beaumont Hospital opens later this year. By September, it is hoped a new 63m area presently under refurbishment at the [...]
Madeleine Delaney, Beauchamps Solicitors, looks at the Data Protection Commissioner’s recommendations to the HSE to increase security of patient information The Data Protection Commissioner (the Commissioner) called on the Health Service Executive (HSE) to increase security of patient information in his 2009 annual report which was published on 8 April 2010. On 31 May 2010 [...]
A new survey reveals that the majority of the Irish population believe the safety of blood transfusions has improved over the past decade, reports Greg Baxter More than half of Irish people in a pan-European survey said they feel that blood transfusion is safer now than it was ten years ago, and less than 10 [...]
Continuing his series of in-depth articles, Dara Gantly reports on the recent official launch of Part 11 of the Medical Practitioners Act, 2007 at the Medical Council’s headquarters in Dublin Described as a milestone for the medical profession and an equally important milestone for enhancing patient safety, the formal launch of Part 11 of the [...]
Our mental health services are far from divine, and anything but a comedy, says Dara Gantly Two of world literature’s greats came to my attention on June 16 last. Naturally, James Joyce was one. Indeed, how could you miss him between all the fried mutton kidneys, Gorgonzola sambos, and dapper David Norris look-alikes (sorry, one [...]
Dara Gantly explores the implications of Mary Harney’s remark that heads would roll in the HSE if it were a private company The Minister for Health has stated that if the HSE was a private company, people would have lost their jobs over the most recent scandals in the health service. Last weekend, Mary Harney [...]
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