Irish Medical Times Medical News for Healthcare Professionals
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent High Court case in which Temple Street Hospital in Dublin sought an order sanctioning a blood transfusion for a baby boy against the wishes of his parents.
Transfusion without parental consent
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Cabinet Fever epidemic
Dara Gantly brings you an update on the latest Cabinet Fever outbreak.
New quality assurance standards due before roll-out of programme
A full set of new quality assurance standards will precede the introduction of screening.
Training bodies to foot PC bill
By Lloyd Mudiwa.
Ireland is not the ‘lousiest place to have a baby’
Dear Editor, I am not of a cross disposition, but Dr Juliet Bressan’s article made me cross (‘Delivering her verdict on childbirth’, Irish Medical Times, January 21, 2011, https://www.
SVHG seeks co-location status
By Gary Culliton.
Doctors on the defensive — MPS
By Lloyd Mudiwa.
Putting the ‘boot’ into Boots
Dr Ruairi Hanley rejects the professional concerns raised regarding the over-the-counter sale of the morning-after pill by Boots without a prescription.
Colonoscopy centres to be named next week
By Gary Culliton.
Bye bye, Mary
In another extraordinary week in Irish politics, Dr Garrett FitzGerald reflects on the departure of Mary Harney and her predecessor in Hawkins House, Micheál Martin