Yearly Archives: 2011

Ronan Gavin has recently been appointed Secretary/General Manager of The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin

Ms. Paddie Blaney has been appointed Director of the newly established All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care

Ms. Sharon Foley has been appointed CEO of the Irish Hospice Foundation. She succeeds Mr. Eugene Murray, who has retired

Health Minister Dr. James Reilly has appointed a new Interim Executive Board of the HSE, which, he says, will run the health services in a more effective manner "with greater emphasis on service delivery, more integration and less duplication"

The Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin has been recognised for a sixth year as one of the ‘Best Large Workplaces in Ireland,’ according to a comprehensive study by the Great Place to Work Institute Ireland

Trusts in Northern Ireland worked better when they included hospitals and community services within the one legal entity, management consultant George Nixon told the HMI South Forum in Waterford Regional Hospital

Jim Collins spoke about the dramatic improvement in patient services which can be achieved through implementing LEAN principles at the HMI Waterford Forum

Times of crisis are times for passion and leadership to deliver major reform and we need passion and leadership to create a health system which will provide the best healthcare equally to all citizens, writes Dr. Fergus O’Ferrall

The different approaches of Fine Gael and Labour to the planned new universal health insurance systems were swiftly fused in the Programme for Government to form a coherent plan of action, writes Liz McManus, who was author of both the Labour Party’s health policy document Curing Our Ills, which proposed an insurance-based system and the subsequent document Our Good Health, which fleshed this out

The 2011 Green Healthcare award was won by The Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin

Dublin fire fighter, Neil McCabe, who won the 2011 National Green Leader Award for innovation and leadership, and succeeded in making his Fire Station in Kilbarrack the first carbon neutral fire station in the world, says his plans could just as easily be used in hospitals and healthcare agencies. Maureen Browne reports

Sustainable practices in waste, water, chemical use, procurement and transportation, to name a few, all have potential to boost the bottom line while also improving environmental and human health outcomes, writes John Harrington

A number of service areas where there is existing work - or potential for future work - in cross-border service delivery, have been identified by a new cross border acute services modelling tool, which is being used to establish how cross border hospital services can provide mutual benefits for the people of the border region, writes Vanya Sargent

Leading Harvard lecturer, Hugh O’Doherty posed questions about the difference (and connections) between authority and leadership, leaders and leading, purpose and task, linear structures and complex inter relationships, when he addressed 60 Beaumont Hospital managers, writes Anne McNeely

Team-working is now recognised as the most appropriate means for delivering healthcare and, with some effort, every team can increase its level of effectiveness by improving its team-working processes, writes Dr. Claire Armstrong

Clarity needed on Government Programme for National Recovery

Ms. Pat O’Boyle, who has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Dublin Dental University Hospital.

Ms. Phil O’Neill has been appointed Assistant Chief Executive Officer of Charter Medical in Smithfield in Dublin, where she is responsible for the development of the complex.

The HSE has appointed Mr. Robert Morton as Director and Dr. Cathal O’Donnell as Medical Director of the National Ambulance Service.

A health technology assessment of robot-assisted keyhole surgery is to be carried out by the Health Information and Quality Authority. Following a request from the HSE, HIQA has agreed to undertake the assessment of the use of the robotic technology for a range of different types of surgery.