Yearly Archives: 2017

Drug and Alcohol Action Plan

A 50 point Action Plan to provide an integrated public health approach to drug and alcohol use from 2017 to 2020, and provides the...

President’s message

See you at Agora

European health managers share learning in Dublin

European healthcare professionals from 24 countries will gather in Dublin next month to share their professional learning and experiences when the Health Management Institute...

New HSE Chief Operations Officer

John Connaghan has been appointed to the newly created role of Chief Operations Officer of the HSE following an international recruitment competition carried out...

HSE Chief Strategy and Planning Officer

Dean Sullivan has been appointed Chief Strategy and Planning Officer for the HSE. Mr. Sullivan, who joins the HSE from the Northern Ireland Health and...

New NTPF CEO

Mr. Liam Sloyan has accepted an offer of appointment as the CEO of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF), following an open recruitment process...

Community Health National Director

Ms. Anne O’Connor has been assigned to the role of HSE National Director, Community Health when that post is established later in the year....

HSE National Director of Acutes

Mr. Liam Woods has been assigned to the role of HSE National Director of Acute Hospitals on a permanent basis. Announcing this, HSE Director General,...

Managers invited to participate in public consultation

Health Managers have been invited to take part in a public consultation on the development of a national Patient Safety Complaints and Advocacy Policy,...

Occupational Therapists’ Legally Protected Title

“Occupational Therapist” is now a legally protected title in Ireland and only those who have applied to, or registered with, CORU, Ireland’s multi-profession health...

Children’s handprints cast in hospital foundation stone

The foundation stone for the new children’s hospital was cast last Wednesday by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny,  Minister for Health Simon Harris T.D. and...

New Infection Control Standards

HIQA has published new national standards for public acute hospitals to protect patients and staff from acquiring and spreading healthcare-associated infections. HIQA’s revision of the...

Early discharge for stroke patients

Despite limited resources, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin has enabled an earlier discharge home from hospital for a total of 137 patients since January 2013, through its Early...

Managers urged to provide rest facilities for doctors

The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland (AAGBI) has called for a change to the culture around night shift working and urged...

Smoking interventions good value for money

HIQA has advised the Minister for Health that investing in interventions to help people quit smoking was effective and provided good value for money. HIQA’s...

Ireland part of global Alzheimer study

Tallaght Hospital, Dublin has been selected as the lead research site in Ireland as part of a global study for Alzheimer Disease. Alzheimer’s disease is...

Stronger protection measures required

While the regulation of specific aspects of care was beginning to sustainably improve services in social care services and hospitals, some nursing homes, residential...

The future of health and social care regulation

To be effective, regulation must respond to people’s needs and must adapt to changing circumstances or risk becoming defunct and meaningless, HIQA CEO Mr....

Over a quarter of disabilities centres not registered

Over a quarter of designated centres for people with disabilities remained to be registered by HIQA, its CEO, Phelim Quinn told the Oireachtas Joint...

Cycling for intensive care equipment

The hugely successful Tallaght Hospital Charity Cycle has been launched for 2017, with all interested cyclists encouraged to register. The Summer 99 – 2017 Charity...

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