Hospital Medicine

Just 108 additional and 98 replacement consultant posts have been approved since the Government came into office in June 2007, well short of the 2,000 extra consultants promised in its Programme for Government.

A decision on the possible relocation of the limb-fitting clinic at St Finbarr’s Hospital to an alternative site in Cork city could be made by the end of the month.

The co-located hospital at Beaumont in Dublin has been granted final planning permission, with conditions, following an appeal to An Bord Pleanála, Irish Medical Times has learned.

A nurse in Cork University Hospital (CUH) has been accredited as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) in colorectal nursing; a first for the nursing profession in Ireland.

Almost one in five people who were on hospital inpatient waiting lists last year had been waiting for a year or more to be admitted to hospital, a Central Statistics Office survey found.

Plans to locate the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) at the Thornton Hall prison site may now be shelved, as the Government seeks cash guarantees from the consortium selected to build the prison.

Cork University Hospital hopes to establish a new dedicated emergency theatre early next year.

Health Minister Mary Harney has officially opened the Oncology Clinical Trials Unit in Cork University Hospital (CUH).

A new centre for cardiac risk in young people has been officially opened at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin.

South Infirmary-Victoria University Hospital should enter into a combined strategy with Cork University Hospital in the rollout of the improved breast cancer care scheme, the Seanad has been told.