Yearly Archives: 2018

The Irish Hospital Consultants Association has called for a significant increase in the number of consultants dealing with cancer diagnosis and treatment, in light of the report from the National Cancer Registry Ireland (NCRI).

Tallaght Hospital’s 2016 Quality Report, describes a broad range of work during the year across the full spectrum of quality.

A total of nine new patients with CPE were detected In the week from December 18 – 24, 2017 and there were ten new patients with CPE detected in the week from December 25 to December 31, 2017.

The Minister for Health, Simon Harris has announced that he will undertake a process of engagement with representative bodies of contracted health professionals this year, aimed at putting in place a new multi-annual approach to fees, commencing in 2019.

Two new linear accelerators have been installed at St Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network (SLRON).

A new research study has revealed that one in three people (35%) are not aware that having diabetes increases the risk of developing dementia.

Professor Helen Whelton (BDS PhD MDPH DTLHE FFD FFPHM) is the new Head of the College of Medicine and Health at UCC.

New safefood funded research into the cost of childhood overweight and obesity on the island of Ireland has estimated the total lifetime cost to be €7.2billion (€4.6 billion in the Republic Of Ireland and £2.1 billion in Northern Ireland).

Too many older adults were entering long term care unnecessarily or prematurely rather than being enabled to stay living at home, according to the OPRAH Report on ‘Older People Remaining in their own Homes, presented to Minister for Older People Jim Daly.

HIQA has published an updated electronic health messaging standard which allows GPs to communicate with hospitals in a structured way. The General Practice Messaging Standard, which plays an important role in the development of eHealth, has been updated and builds on a previous standard. It specifies the structure and content of electronic messages for health and social care.

Each hospital providing hip fracture surgery should be resourced to provide a seven day a week service to trauma patients - including prompt access to theatre, medical support and early mobilisation by a physiotherapist, it was recommended in the Irish Hip Fracture Database National Report 2016.

There was a record number of organ donor and transplantations in Ireland in 2017, with a total of 308 organ transplants.

Minister of State with special responsibility for Disabilities, Finian McGrath TD, announced a €4.5m fund to support the reform of disability services.

A new study has found that while the use of healthcare services by older adults increases in the last year of life, there is no evidence of the highly intensive end-of-life care that is seen in other countries and which is often associated with inappropriate care and undesirable outcomes.