Yearly Archives: 2017

Suzanne Corcoran has been appointed Chief Executive of Peamount Healthcare in Dublin. She replaces Robin Mullan who retired last year. Ms. Corcoran was formerly Operations...

The main priorities for the new 10 year plan for health policy in Ireland should include a commissioning model, evidence-based decision-making, the use of...

The establishment of a national emergency service providing next generation stroke therapy for selected stroke patients in two hospital sites in Ireland has been...

The first HIQA reports on medication safety in public acute hospitals in Ireland have found that where effective medication safety governance arrangements were in...

A mug full of tar  - which contains toxic chemicals that cause cancer - builds up in the lungs of a 20 a day...

The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street’s Community Midwifery Team has won first prize for innovation in practice at the British Journal of Midwifery Practice...

Recent use of any illegal drug -  at 12% -  was highest in the area covered by South and West Dublin City, South County...

The Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017, which would enable the Minister of Health to issue a licence, with conditions, to operate...

A total of 280 organ transplants were carried out during 2016 - the second highest yearly number to date. There were 50 living donor transplants...

A planning application for the new National Maternity Hospital on the campus of St. Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin, has been lodged with An...

A new service for people with autism has been opened at Botanic Avenue in Glasnevin, Dublin. Botanic Horizons is run by Autism Spectrum Disorder Initiatives...

Minister for Health, Simon Harris has decided to establish a compassionate access programme for cannabis-based treatments. The Minister made the announcement when he published the...

While progress had been made in pre-hospital emergency care provision in Ireland, serious issues remained in the organisation of these services in the Dublin...

Staff of Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan, took part in the Love Life Love Walking Event, a collaboration between the HSE, Healthy Ireland and...

Medical cards for children with disability

Welcome to 2017

Leopardstown Park Hospital received EcoMerit Cert St. Francis Hospice Wins Top Award Image Business Woman Of The Year Award Deadline for HTA participation Minister spells out work of National Patient Safety Office Masters in Human Factors in Patient Safety Graduates all offered permanent jobs Hospitals fined for target breaches Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit Attracting European Medicines Agency To Dublin New Guidance On Patient Consent for Anaesthesia Evidence for Clinical Guidelines National Standards For Maternity Care Minister Visits NRH Waterford Community Nursing Unit Electronic Health Record Launched RCPI President Designate University Degree In Paramedic Studies Services for ethnic minority communities Five New Primary Care Centres Real Time Information For Limerick ED Mallow Injury Unit Standardising Patient Summaries EIB Loan Drives Hospital Expansion Statutory Homecare Consultation Mullingar Healthy Ireland Standards For Data Collection Some cancer rates declining or static

When people criticised the Irish health services they should be told that we were delivering better and safer outcomes than 10 years ago, to an increased population, a significantly increased elderly population, with more complex cases and less capacity, Dr. Colm Henry, National Clinical Advisor, Acute Hospitals told a meeting of the HMI South in the Erinville Hospital, Cork, last week.

Influenza is an acute respiratory infection which can be asymptomatic or symptomatic with sudden onset of symptoms such as fever, a dry cough, muscle pains, headache, and sore throat. In most cases the illness is self-limiting but in certain risk groups it can be severe and even fatal, write Drs. Lois O’Connor EPIET Fellow, Joan O’Donnell, Specialist in Public Health Medicine, HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre and Kevin Kelleher, Director, Health & Wellbeing - Public Health and Child Health.

You still need to keep your wits about you to work out from the 2017 HSE National Service Plan if the budget received by the HSE to fund health and social services in 2017 is an increase or a decrease on last year, writes Maureen Browne.