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HSE ‘VERs’ towards reform

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Will the HSE’s redundancies make or break the grade, asks Dara Gantly Better late than never, I guess.

Suffer the little children

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The HSE’s Roscommon report was sadly all too familiar, says Dara Gantly “As children and young people, we have a right to be protected and be safe from harm from others.

Doing the nation a service

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Dara Gantly questions whether a wider indenture scheme could now help Ireland Remembering Kitchener’s appeal ‘Your country needs you!’ may well evoke different responses from an Irish or British audience, but such a call to arms has emerged in different guises of late on both sides of the Irish Sea, and indeed in the pages of Irish Medical Times.

Allocating scarce resources

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Dara Gantly examines the renewed debate on resource allocation Having dined out on the Celtic Tiger for years, we are only now digesting the full scale of the folly that was Anglo Irish Bank, picking up the bank bailout bill and checking our wallets — and the wallets of our kids — to see if we can cover even the

MAC operating system

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Leadership and learning are what’s needed at Hawkins House, says Dara Gantly Last week, before the Dáil Public Accounts Committee, the Secretary General of the Department of Health Michael Scanlan revealed that his staff could find no records setting out precisely why the Department had sanctioned, back in 2001, an annual grant of about €250,000 to SIPTU as part of

Reinventing the wheel

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Dara Gantly reexamines Hanly’s famous hub and spoke model The current organisation, structure and staffing of the hospital system is failing to deliver the care, that at its best, the Irish system is capable of giving.

Plotting patient safety

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Dara Gantly urges all IMT readers to make their voices heard on the new national standards Remember, remember the 4th of November.

KO’d by K Doc report

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Was the HSE’s co-op review really that bad, asks Dara Gantly “Facile, inaccurate and analytically weak.

Doctors on the dole

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Dara Gantly examines the likelihood of seeing Irish medical graduates joining our ever-increasing dole queues As you are acutely aware, unemployment has reached its highest level since 1995, with the number of people working falling by more than 100,000 in the last 12 months alone.

Doing the paper rounds

Dara Gantly looks as what we have learned from Prof Brendan Drumm’s recent media interviews