Monthly Archives: June, 2018

President’s message

Navigating in turbulent times

Clonbrusk wins Primary Care Centre Award

Clonbrusk Primary Care Centre in Athlone won the Primary Care Centre of the year 2018 award at the Irish Healthcare Centre Awards. Anne Naughton, Primary...

Irish Health Managers In HOPE Exchange Programme

Five Irish health managers participated in a four week HOPE training programme in five European countries in May.

EU invests €8.8 million in cross border acute hospital services

An €8.8 million EU INTERREG VA funded cross-border project has been launched, which is expected to enable 13,000 patients to benefit from cross border...

Plan to cut hospital operation waiting list to under 70,000

The Minister for Health’s Inpatient/Day Case Action Plan 2018 aims to reduce the overall number of patients waiting for hospital operations and procedures to under...

How digital technology is transforming health care – EAHM Conference

Today we as healthcare providers face a new challenge: unleashing the power of digital technology to fundamentally reinvent how healthcare is delivered. This was the challenge posed to attendees at the recent ehealth conference. “E-health transforming healthcare in disruptive times” held in the Royal College of Surgeons, write David Wall and Peter Roche.

HSE Interim Director General

John Connaghan has been appointed Interim Director General of the HSE by Health Minister, Simon Harris. He was formerly Deputy Director General and Chief Operating...

Government to establish new independent Board for the HSE

Minister for Health Simon Harris has received Government approval to draft a Bill to establish an independent Board for the HSE. Speaking in the wake...

HSE Board Chair To Be Recruited

A recruitment campaign is underway to select a Chairperson for the new HSE Board. Health Minister m SimonHarris said “It’s clear that the current HSE...

Irish hospitals urged to tackle data concerns

Fourteen main areas of concern regarding data in the Irish hospital sector have been identified in a special investigation carried out in 2017 by...

Success of Inaugural leadership and management programme

The HSE Quality Improvement Division and the RCSI have celebrated the success of the Inaugural Clinical Directors Executive Skills Programme. The inaugural Clinical Director Executive...

New €24 million Peamount development

A new building which will provide 50 replacement Older Persons residential beds and a new 50 bed rehabilitation unit, is well under way by...

Total of 120 Primary Care Centres now open

Minister for Health Simon Harris TD officially opened Celbridge Primary Care Centre in Co. Kildare this week, saying that the centre shows how “that...

Managers’ Views on Cardiac Review

Managers now have an opportunity to give their views on the National Review of Specialist Cardiac Services. On behalf of the Steering Group carrying out...

CEO/Registrar CORU

Ginny Hanrahan has been re-appointed as CEO/Registrar of CORU  for a further five years, following a full recruitment competition. CORU regulates the health and social...

IT Professional of the Year

Jane Carolan, National Director, HSE Health Business Services has been awarded IT Professional of the Year at the Tech Excellence Award. She received the award for...

RCSI Building Wins Irish Architecture Awards 2018

The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) announced RCSI‘s 26 York Street building as the winner of the Public Choice category at...

MedEx Comes to Tallaght

MedEx, a community based chronic illness rehabilitation programme which has run in DCU successfully for the last ten years has now been introduced to...

Registration deadline fast approaching

Finbarr Colfer, HIQA Deputy Chief Inspector of Social Services has warned that the legal timeframe for a final decision on residential centres for people...

Nursing home inspections

HIQA’s Older Persons’ Team continues to implement its Enhanced Monitoring Approach in nursing homes and in tandem with this, nearly one in five nursing homes...

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