Hospital Medicine

The HSE expects a major review of emergency services in the South to be completed in just 10 weeks, Irish Medical Times has learned.

The New Zealand system may offer a viable alternative to Ireland’s system of compen-sation for Healthcare Acquired Infections, according to Dr Theresa Graham’s group Stop Infections Now (SIN).

A health advocacy group has attacked the ‘callous closure’ of Monaghan Hospital and said that patients may now be denied admission to Cavan Hospital.

St James’s Hospital intends to spend up to €15 million on antibiotic, antifungal, antiretroviral and antimicrobial drugs.

The co-location project whereby private hospitals are built on the campus of voluntary and public hospitals would be abandoned by a Fine Gael-led government, according to Fine Gael health spokesperson, Dr James Reilly.

The HSE has denied accusations that the Mater Hospital is placing trolleys in wards to show improvements in its ED.

The IMO should enter discussion with the HSE to develop a contract with a mobile operator to provide every NCHD with a mobile phone, a delegate at the IMO AGM has suggested.

A former IMO President wants the HSE to explain where more than E10 million in travel and subsistence funding for NCHDs has ‘disappeared’.

The death of Clare man in an ambulance on the way to Limerick Regional Hospital has ‘reflected the worst fears of the people of the mid-west’ about the reconfiguration of acute services.

The HSE is conducting a clinical review of circumstances surrounding Mr Dan McDonnell’s care and death with specific reference to the impact the closure of the 24 hour Emergency Department at Ennis General Hospital had on his care.