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Irish CEO to address congress
Laura Finn | 16 March 2010
The CEO of St Vincent’s Healthcare Group will join some 400 senior healthcare leaders from all over the world at a major conference in Belgium in the coming months. Nicky Jermyn will speak as the CEO of one of Europe’s... Read more
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Specialist transplant unit plans drawn up
Gary Culliton | 16 March 2010
Detailed proposals for a new specialist transplantation unit at Beaumont will shortly be presented to the HSE. The plan is being drawn up by the hospital’s renal transplant Clinical Director to secure extra specialist staff, when its transplant team is... Read more
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ABI Ireland welcomes psychiatric moves
Laura Finn | 16 March 2010
Chief Executive of Acquired Brain Injury Ireland (ABI Ireland) Barbara O’Connell has welcomed the Government’s decision to eliminate inappropriate Victorian-era institutions. Last week, the Government committed itself to moving 1,200 patients from outdated psychiatric institutions to community-based facilities within the... Read more
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Will EU tobacco ruling increase deaths?
Mary Anne Kenny | 15 March 2010
The Irish Heart Foundation (IHF) has said it is ‘gravely concerned’ about the detrimental impact that last week’s European Court of Justice ruling on minimum cigarette prices imposed in Ireland could have on the nation’s health. On March 4, the... Read more
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Clinical indemnity costs €12 per bed-day
Gary Culliton | 15 March 2010
The cost of the Clinical Indemnity Scheme (CIS) is €12 per bed-day in both Category 1 and Category 2 hospitals, a new study has shown. The Health Service Executive paid out €60 million in 2009 in relation to the CIS,... Read more
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Campaign set to help with asthma control
Laura Finn | 15 March 2010
A campaign has been launched to encourage patients with asthma to visit their local pharmacist to get the most from their inhaler. The asthma control campaign is a joint initiative between the Asthma Society of Ireland and the Irish Pharmacy... Read more
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Private work in breach
Gary Culliton | 12 March 2010
Alarming breaches of the private practice provisions of the consultant contract are revealed in a new report seen by IMT. The figures show that many consultants are in gross breach of their contracts with the HSE. The HSE report reveals... Read more
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Bed closures are saving the HSE €0.65m per day
Dara Gantly | 12 March 2010
Current bed closures throughout the country are saving the HSE an estimated €645,414 a day, new figures have suggested. A total of 726 beds were closed in the acute hospital system in the latter half of January, the Minister for... Read more
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CEO search cost €60k
Dara Gantly | 12 March 2010
The recruitment process to find the new CEO of the HSE has cost more than €60,000, it has emerged. The price tag for placing advertisements for the post nationally and internationally last December amounted to €25,055.... Read more
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Transplant and dialysis figures highlighted on World Kidney Day
Gary Culliton | 11 March 2010
The numbers of people with a functioning kidney transplant, or who are on long-term dialysis, is expected to rise by 5 to 6 per cent per year, the HSE’s National Renal Office has said. At present, about 1,850 patients have... Read more
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DOH Secretary General to address troubling ORP report
Dara Gantly | 11 March 2010
The Minister for Health has pledged that Secretary General Michael Scanlan and his management team will address the shortcomings identified in the hard-hitting Organisational Review Programme (ORP) report into the Department of Health. Describing Scanlan as one of the most... Read more
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Glaucoma on increase as Irish population ages
Aoife Connors | 11 March 2010
The prevalence of glaucoma is expected to rise significantly in Ireland, according to a leading consultant ophthal-mologist, as the number of people over 65 in Ireland is predicted to increase by almost two-fifths by 2016 and to treble by 2041.... Read more
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New policy on dementia due
Dara Gantly | 11 March 2010
The Government will start work on a new national policy on dementia this year. Minister of State at the Department of Health, Áine Brady, said current policy on dementia was informed by a number of reports and strategies, principally the... Read more
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Shifts not being covered in EDs - IAEM
Laura Finn | 10 March 2010
Unfilled registrar positions in emergency departments have resulted in shifts not being covered and a reduction in the number of doctors on duty, the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine has claimed. The IAEM are seriously concerned with the difficulty emergency... Read more
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Tallaght X-ray backlog reported to HIQA last April
10 March 2010
A balance of 23,169 X-rays, relating to approximately 14,000 patients, have yet to be read by a consultant radiologist at Tallaght Hospital, it has emerged. The HSE has begun an investigation into how 58,000 X-rays failed to be reviewed by... Read more
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