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Breakthrough on payment of premium rates

...at a time when the health service cannot recruit consultants, that hospitals are in breach of such a basic contractual term. “If you require consultants to come in and work...

Unvaccinated staff putting patients at risk

MInister for Health Simon Harris at the launch of the IPHA paper on vaccines - 'Vaccines for Life'

...healthcare workers was 30.8 per cent and in long-term care facilities, for 81 out of 252 facilities that returned data, the overall uptake rate among healthcare professionals was 27.1 per...

United on Brexit impact

Pictured after the Seanad committee hearing were (l-r): Paul Laffin, BMA EU Policy Manager; 
Dr John Woods, Chair, BMA Northern Ireland Council; Bernadette Maginnis, Senior public affairs advisor, BMA NI; Prof Trevor Duffy, IMO; Senator Neale Richmond, Chair, Seanad Special Select Committee on the Withdrawal of the UK from the EU Membership; Dr Ann Hogan, IMO President; and Vanessa Hetherington, Assistant Director, Policy and International Affairs, IMO

...we would view that positively, because from the point of view of Northern Ireland there are very significant collaborations in terms of medical research between universities in the North and...

Gardaí to formalise GP work

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...who are required to remain in the jurisdiction for the life-time of the contract, appointed for a term of four years. Once these panels are formed, each station will manage...

Sling procedures for stress urinary incontinence

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...of sling procedures; tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) is accepted as the standard treatment for SUI based on copious evidence reporting long-term efficacy. Transobturator tape (TOT) was developed as a safer...

DPER told by IHCA of 4,800 bed shortfall

Martin Varley, IHCA

...the mid-term review of the 2016-2021 Capital Plan, which provides for just over €3 billion of investment in healthcare infrastructure. The review of the Plan was brought forward due to...

Is that really ecstasy?

In half an hour forensic results are given to service users. Pic: Getty Images

...she stated. She added that they did not use the term “drug checking” as this carried an implication that what they did was simply reagent testing, and they had to...

Baby girls have genetic advantage against infection

Pictured is Prof Catherine Greene (left), Associate Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the RCSI who led the research with her collaborators, first author David O’Driscoll (right) and senior co-author Prof Eleanor Molloy (centre), Head of Department of Paediatrics in Trinity College Dublin. Pic: Maxwellphotography.ie

...Newborn infant girls have better outcomes than their male counterparts due to an innate genetic advantage in responding to acute infections, according to new research from the RCSI. While...