Hospital Medicine

Dr Maurice Hayes, Chairman of the review into the delay in reporting radiological examinations and the management of GP referral letters at the Tallaght Hospital today revealed the Review’s terms of reference.

Professor Desmond O’Neill, Consultant in Geriatric Medicine in Tallaght Hospital, has been honoured for championing active and positive ageing in Ireland.

Despite AMNCH Tallaght being the first hospital in the country to introduce a Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) for x-rays in 1998, its legacy system is in danger of being outstripped by solutions at other hospitals involved in the National Integrated Medical Imaging System (NIMIS) project.

The College of Psychiatry of Ireland (CPI) has called for improved regulation of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and for the establishment of centres of excellence to administer the controversial treatment nationally.

The Hospital Group Ireland, which deals with cosmetic surgery, has urged the Government to give it access to HSE theatre facilities to ‘help alleviate waiting lists’.

Dr Maurice Hayes has been appointed to chair the review commissioned by HSE CEO Prof Brendan Drumm into the delay in reporting radiological examinations and the management of GP referral letters at Tallaght Hospital.

The Health Service Executive has said that three radiology posts are currently in the process of recruitment for the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Dooradoyle, Limerick.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) must ensure that those hospital consultants who are not adhering to the stipulated public/private mix of the consultant contract are not allowed to continue with this practice, the Dáil Public Accounts Committee has insisted.

Staff from Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Ireland were among the first Irish people to complete specialised training in brain-injury rehabilitation.

The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has called on the HSE to urgently bring forward a comprehensive programme for consultant expansion to increase the number of senior decision makers in the country’s emergency departments (EDs).