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Doing exactly what it says on the tin

HIQA CEO Phelim Quinn

...Bill – which the Government states will bring private healthcare under HIQA’s remit — is among 69 additional Bills that the current Government plans to introduce “in the longer term”....

Persistent pain as a disease entity

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...reports Persistent pain is a complex and long-term issue, with one-in-five individuals suffering from the condition for more than two decades, doctors attending the IMT Clinical Times Hot Topics GP...

Children are dying from preventable infections

Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin

...terms of physical, psychological and family support required, and in socio-economic terms. Although overall numbers are small, each case represents a child and family who have had a traumatic and...

63% witness poor provision of services — HIQA

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...of health and social care services, with 96 per cent agreeing that it was important that the rights of vulnerable people in long-term residential settings were respected. A vast majority...

Speedy resolution of new GP contract crucial

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...their engagement with the College, and if not, to identify why. “That relationship is critical. We wouldn’t be here without them,” he explained. “Certainly during my term as CEO I...

NCHD — what does that mean?

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...other countries, I had never come across this term. So what does this mean, I questioned? National Commission for Human Development, National Capital History Day, Northeast Colorado Health Department? Wait,...

A complicated delivery

The Maternity Hospital at Elm Park will be co­located with St Vincent’s University Hospital

...Hospital campus would certainly seem to qualify as a post-term pregnancy, with the due date for a ‘revised’ deal now extended to the end of the month. But as we...

The year that was in it

Dr Brendan O'Shea

...the past year include Dr Karena Hanley as National Director of GP Training, Fintan Foy as CEO, and Ivana Pericin and James Larkin as Research Officers, joining Dr Clare Collins’s...

Let’s make some noise about osteoporosis

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...these rates. Many survivors end up in long-term care, lose their independence, or never regain their prior-fracture level of function. National figures on spine fractures are lacking. International figures show...