The Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O’Sullivan TD, officially opened 3U Partnership’s China Office in Beijing’s award-winning Galaxy SOHO urban complex last weekend.
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Delayed discharges up by 15% in a year
The number of delayed discharges in acute hospitals increased by 15 per cent in August 2014 compared to the same period last year, and this upward trend may continue over the winter period, according to the HSE.
Goal still on recruitment drive for Ebola fight
Goal has blamed the technical and personal difficulties Irish healthcare professionals face in uprooting themselves for the low response to date to its emergency recruitment drive
EU to boost Ebola research with €24.4m
The European Commission has announced €24.
Beaumont, Limerick, Cork hospitals ‘most at risk’
The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has serious safety concerns regarding the Ebola virus, including the continued crowding of emergency departments (EDs) with admitted inpatients on trolleys.
Preparations are laid to combat virus threat
Additional actions in relation to clinical guidance, communications and transport have been put forward by the Minister for Health as the prime responses so far to the Ebola threat, reports Gary Culliton.
Seminar to assist GPs in identifying coeliac disease
The Coeliac Society of Ireland is hosting its first GP Educational Seminar next week to assist GPs in better identifying a disease that affects one in 100 Irish people.
Guidelines to cut inappropriate referrals
The number of paediatric ENT outpatients has gradually increased over the past eight years, Gary Culliton reports in his latest Clinical Update.
Getting the right practice rent
Kevin Collins, partner in the real estates department of Eversheds, will give his expert advice to GPs at IMT’s forthcoming GP Practice Management Seminar in Dublin
Leadership needed on full capacity protocols
The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has called for “political leadership” to ensure a safe solution is found on the issue of full capacity protocols (FCPs).