The outgoing CEO of the Health Service Executive has suggested that a resource allocation model where money ‘follows the patients’ may only prove successful if hospitals or the newly established Integrated Service Areas (ISAs) can be run as individual businesses.

The IMO has warned that further cuts in GP fees will “jeopardise the planned transformation programme” and move the GP service to an “increasingly reactive model”.

Prof Brendan Drumm believes arriving at a patient-centred health service must be the ultimate destination for the HSE, but that getting there will require widespread clinical leadership.

Dara Gantly looks as what we have learned from Prof Brendan Drumm’s recent media interviews

The IHCA was to raise concerns on private practice at a meeting of the Public/Private Practice Measurement Committee this Wednesday, July 28.

By Gary Culliton Dr Frank Dolphin has been appointed the next Chairman of the Health Service Executive (HSE) to succeed Mr Liam Downey who has completed two terms as Chairman.

GPs once had an exclusive primary-care role in managing patients’ weight.

The Department of Health is to explore alternative means of financing projects no longer described as ‘key priorities’, such as the relocation of Dublin’s maternity hospitals.

Antidepressants reduce the risk of suicide in depressed youths, despite fears to the contrary, writes consultant psychiatrist Dr Cian Denihan

The IMO has reiterated to the Department of Health that consultant psychiatrists who attend mental health tribunals are independent of the Mental Health Commission (MHC) and the Department.