Giovanni Morelli had some excellent wines during an even more exceptional meal in a must-visit restaurant in Barcelona Have you taken a Dublin taxi recently? With a few exceptions, most of my taxis have been filthy Toyotas with very smelly drivers. I thought this was unique to Dublin, but not so. I was in Barcelona [...]
Irish consultant gastroenterologists from across the country met in Kilkenny recently to discuss the latest international evidence and advice on the management of inflammatory bowel disease In April, Ireland took part for the first time in an annual exchange on the advances in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), sponsored by Abbott, and known as the IBD [...]
The Government believes that reference pricing will introduce competition in the off-patent drugs market, reports Gary Culliton Potential savings of up to €22.3 million under the Drugs Payment Scheme (DPS) and €55.4 million under the General Medical Services (GMS) scheme are possible, a new report suggests. The Government plans to introduce reference pricing for medications [...]
‘Abandon hope all ye who enter’ is unfortunately over too many of our mental health inpatient facilities, reports Gary Culliton Some 700 staff left the mental health services in 2009 – 10 per cent of the entire workforce, according to the latest Annual Report of the Mental Health Commission (MHC). “We had hoped that when [...]
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 [...]
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