Hospital Medicine

The outcome of conciliation talks yesterday between the HSE and INO / SIPTU on the Sligo General Hospital dispute is that the unions have recommended a deferral of the strike action pending a referral to the Labour Court and the outcome of same.

Hospital consultants have been excluded from a new Government-initiated comparative review of top-level pay rates across Europe, Irish Medical Times can reveal.

The dispute by INO members at Killarney Community Hospital continues today with a withdrawal of labour from 3-4pm.

A HSE working group has given the go-ahead for the first stage of a €100 million national system, designed to cut out lost x-rays that have been at the centre of recent cancer scandals.

Emergency department (ED) staff could be forced to live for months in hospitals and even make alternative arrangements for the care of children if an influenza pandemic breaks out, new research has warned.

Twenty-seven per cent of mothers who gave birth at the Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital last year were born outside of the Republic of Ireland, new figures reveal.

Following the release of the National Treatment Purchase Fund Report, Temple Street Children’s Hospital has issued at statement, saying it prioritises the patients on its waiting lists “in accordance to clinical need i.

In arranging 12,342 out-patient consultations, 23,056 public patients were contacted, by the The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF).

Health Minister Mary Harney this morning said agreement has been reached that there will be a single Clinical Director for the three Dublin children’s hospitals, at Temple Street, Crumlin and Tallaght, under the new consultant contract.

Our Lady’s Hospital for Children, Crumlin is to close wards to meet its budget.