With salaries accounting for more than 70 per cent of a hospital’s budget, Dr Mick Molloy believes solely targeting discretionary budgets would be merely tinkering at the health economic margins.
A question of policy and human rights
August 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Ed Madden, BL, looks at how the Court considered the legality of a Primary Care Trust adopting an Individual Funding Request policy where patient requests were determined by clinical factors.
IMO must face reality of medicine today
August 22, 2011 By 25 Comments
Dr Ruairi Hanley writes that the IMO must stop dismissing suggestions for reform, defending the interests of a minority and engaging in solution-free whining.
Weighing up the obesity campaign
August 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The reasons for rising obesity rates are more complex than they might appear and current health campaigns are stigmatising overweight people, writes Dr Muiris Houston.
Randomised trials and tribulations
August 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dr John Ryan on the difficulties he faces in switching from a life of patient care to spending all of his time in a research laboratory.
Transplant services on a wing and a prayer
August 19, 2011 By 2 Comments
After yet another damning report on our rudderless health service, Dara Gantly wonders what innovations will be necessary to incentivise donors and care for those awaiting life-saving transplants, despite some encouraging statistics.
What happens at the FPC inquiries?
August 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
John Savage of Beauchamps Solicitors takes a look at the workings of the Fitness to Practise Committee and some of the possible outcomes of its enquiries.
Sympathy for the ‘devil’
August 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dr Mick Molloy writes that although they are easy targets for criticism, hamstrung hospital managers have become the scapegoats of the health system.
NCMG should be included in plans for children’s hospital
August 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor, We at the National Centre for Medical Genetics (NCMG) are concerned at the content of the article that appeared in Irish Medical Times on July 19, 2011 (‘National Genetics Service set to be excluded from NPH move’, http://bit.ly/pUjbVd).
Money is the main reason for our exodus of NCHDs
August 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dear Editor, I think it is time we called a spade a spade and acknowledge that the main reason we have our present shortage of NCHDs is the huge change in their terms and conditions, resulting in massive salary reductions. This now leaves the basic annual salary of an intern at €30,300 and a first-year [...]
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