Monthly Archives: March, 2018

New HIQA Board Members

Health Minister, Simon Harris has appointed four new board members to the Board of HIQA. They are Prof. Deirdre Madden, Dr James Kiely, Mr Enda...

Negotiations on drug pricing and supply

Health Minister,  Simon Harris has announced that Ireland is to open negotiations with Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Austria on drug pricing and supply. The...

Beaumont Hospital wins Leadership & Management Awards

Beaumont Hospital, Dublin won two awards at the National HR Leadership & Management Awards 2018. The hospital's HR Recruitment Team, led by Aidan McGrath, Head...

Sláintecare will cost taxpayer €20bn

The Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) has said that the cost of implementing the proposals in the Sláintecare Report has been understated and will...

Tallaght University Hospital

Tallaght Hospital has changed its name to Tallaght University Hospital. “The change is a subtle but important change and formalises our status as one of...

Paediatric Urgent Care Satellite Centre

Construction of the Paediatric Urgent Care Satellite Centre at the front of Tallaght University Hospital is planned for June this year, according to the...

Celebrating International Women’s Day

     

Ireland has less than half neurologists required

Decades of underinvestment have resulted in Ireland  having the lowest ratio of consultant neurologists per head of the population in the developed world, according...

A €7.6 million cross-border mental health project

A €7.6 million EU INTERREG VA funded cross-border project has been launched in response to the increase in numbers of people with mental health...

Minister orders national review of hospital parking charges

Health Minister, Simon Harris has ordered a national review of hospital car parking charges. The Minister said “I have heard from many patients, as well...

New Cork Radiotherapy Centre

A joint venture between UPMC and Bon Secours Cork will see the development of a new state of the art Radiotherapy Centre in Cork, combining...

Dublin to host international tobacco conference

Dublin has been announced as the winner of a bid to host a major international conference to tackle tobacco, to be held in 2021....

Seventeen new patients with CPE detected

The latest figures from the National CPE Reference Laboratory have shown that a total of 17 new patients with CPE were detected in the...

The Cork Kerry Community Healthcare launch of COMPASS Healthy Ireland Implementation Plan 2018 – 2022

The Cork Kerry Community Healthcare launch of COMPASS Healthy Ireland Implementation Plan 2018 – 2022.

RCPI becomes Nominating Body for Seanad Éireann

The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI)has been successful in its application to join the Register of Nominating Bodies for Seanad Éireann. RCPI has...

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