Hospital Medicine

The IMO is to seek a meeting with the Minister for Health and the Medical Council to address what it has described as ‘unforeseen consequences’ arising from the Medical Practitioners Act 2007, which is placing restrictions upon doctors on the training register.

A huge number of NCHDs have nowhere to go when they finish and attain their qualifications, NCHD Chairman Dr Matthew Sadlier told the IMO AGM.

Between 300 and 500 deaths from strokes could be prevented annually, CUH Professor Cillian Twomey told the Irish Medical Organisation’s AGM.

The best way the Irish health service can help stem the current brain drain of NCHDs abroad will be to honour the terms and conditions of employment negotiated in the recent contract in ‘deeds and words’, IMO delegates in Killarney were told.

The Government’s Fair Deal scheme is contributing to delayed discharges, which are clogging up hospitals, Cork University Hospital geriatrician Prof Cillian Twomey claimed at the IMO AGM last week.

Human resources managers and financial departments within hospitals are carrying out an organised campaign to fraudulently withhold wages from doctors, non-consultant hospital doctors were told in Killarney.

The Executive Council of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), has recommended rejection of the proposals on public service pay and transformation for the period 2010 – 2014.

HSE South has confirmed that it is extending the engagement process in relation to the reconfiguration of acute hospital services in the South East counties.

The National Treatment Purchase Fund has found a very large percentage of those who had their outpatient appointment did not need a procedure.

There is a real need for a national development committee for children’s palliative care to be established, according to the Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF).