By Lloyd Mudiwa A disease programme clinical director with the HSE has said clinical leads should be given financial incentives for introducing cost-effectiveness into their service areas, which in turn would enable them to fund further and alternative improvements.
More efficient use of scarce healthcare resources can be influenced by the resource allocation and financing mechanisms in place, Lloyd Mudiwa reports The allocation of health resources in the coming year will be “really challenging” at the very least, in the words of the Minister of Health Mary Harney, and it has never been more important, high-profile delegates heard last
By Mary Anne Kenny maryanne.
A report from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has once again highlighted the serious manpower problem in general practice.
Current healthcare practices will become increasingly unsustainable by 2021 because of Ireland’s growing and aging population, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has said.
Patients with medical cards spend nearly four days longer in hospital than non-card holders, new statistics have revealed.
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