Hospital Medicine

The cessation of acute services at Monaghan General Hospital will result in an impossible burden being placed on Cavan General Hospital in its absence – equivalent in medical admissions to those at St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin, a local GP and campaigner has claimed.

Dara Gantly reports on a cross-border initiative on renal care that has won a major European award.

The new cath lab at Waterford Regional Hospital faces an uncertain future, as it has no guarantee that it will receive the funding it needs to continue.

St James’s Hospital has announced that it has awarded two separate contracts for security and car parking services at its campus, but has not stated how much it will spend on these.

A new clinic to improve detection of cancerous moles is now up and running at Cork University Hospital (CUH).

A report in the Irish Times of 13 October, confirms a story carried in the Irish Medical Times on July 30.

It is now highly unlikely that the HSE will open the 108-bed Phase 2B block at Mullingar Hospital as planned – eleven years after its completion, Irish Medical Times has learned.

Urban centres cannot sustain their current number of emergency departments (EDs), and the centralisation currently under way in cancer services must be repeated in areas such as critical care, complex surgery, coronary care and EDs, Prof Brendan Drumm told the IHCA’s AGM last weekend.

The Health Service Executive and the Department of Health can offer to re-evaluate the cases of women seen in breast clinics without any significant financial implications, as the number of women who request re-evaluation is statistically insignificant.

Fine Gael Health Spokesman, Dr James Reilly, has said that the transfer of cancer patients from local hospitals to new centres of excellence should be suspended until adequate resources are put in place.