Yearly Archives: 2018

Twenty two per cent of the Irish population are current smokers, with 18 per cent smoking daily and four per cent smoking occasionally, Minister...

The Government has approved a proposal to change the treatment of farms and businesses under the Nursing Home Support Scheme, also known as the...

The Medical Protection Society has called for the creation of specialist courts with strict timetables, and judges who have an expertise in clinical negligence...

Following a rigorous application and interview process the HSE National Human Resources Coaching Service has been recognised externally and is currently a finalist in...

Health Minister, Simon Harris has published a new online repository of information on medical cannabis on the Department of Health’s website. The repository provides detailed...

The Trinity Lecture Theatre hosted a very special graduation ceremony at the end of August as Tallaght University Hospital WALKways trainees graduated having completed...

The latest findings from Dublin City University and Irish Life Health indicate that 34% of girls and 41% of boys aged 16 do not...

Following a very successful inaugural HSE Clinical Directors Development programme, which finished early this year, a second programme will be launched on November 21,...

The major cervical screening crisis emerged into the public domain because of a failed attempt to disclose the results of a retrospective audit to...

The HSE’s open disclosure policy and HSE/SCA guidelines should be revised as a matter of urgency to reflect the primacy of the right of...

Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe has warned that health spending will have to be controlled and the rate of recruitment of...

Bon Secours Hospital hosted its sixth annual Practice nurse Conference at The Kingsley Hotel, Cork. The topics covered this year’s conference were linked to...

A single tier public health system within a decade, 2,600 additional hospital beds, and three new elective hospitals have been promised as part of...

The Child and Family Agency (Tusla) must take urgent action to address serious shortcomings in how it manages allegations of child sexual abuse, according...

A few years ago, Hector fronted an offbeat, entertaining TV series in which he travelled the country and interviewed interesting people on the topics of the time. He asked a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church about the prospects of women being ordained to the priesthood. The reply he received was a conversation stopper. The bishop simply said – “It won’t happen”.

The science of Patient Safety is complex and difficult to achieve without careful planning. Unfortunately, the theories and methods of Patient Safety are not part of the core skills of those who plan and run healthcare facilities – and this is not their own fault, writes Dr. Peter Lachman.

As a leading healthcare company, we were delighted to see the recent publication of the Sláintecare Implementation Strategy. These wide-ranging recommendations will shape the future of Ireland's health system and at GSK we are ready to play our part, writes Eimear Caslin, General Manager, GSK, Ireland.

Communication is an essential skill, demonstrated and appraised during an interview process, so why are so many problems within the workplace attributable to poor communication? In a recent study conducted in Northern Ireland as part of a Master in Public Administration, John McEntee evidenced how an organisations structure and model of service delivery impacts on internal communication and organisational performance.

The Bon Secours Hospital Cork has announced it is the first hospital in Ireland to offer pioneering robotic-arm assisted joint replacement surgery. Ireland’s largest private...

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