Yearly Archives: 2021

Prompted by the focus there is on the way Covid-19 and the restrictions imposed in managing the pandemic are impacting on our mental health services, I wondered if our mental health services infrastructure is equipped to deal with the extra demands it is likely to experience, writes Denis Doherty.

As we emerge from the pandemic we can reflect on the lessons learned and we can use them to build a better future for...

Tony Canavan is the President of the HMI.

The concept of a Community Virtual Ward, which was recently tested by the Office of the Department of Health Chief Nursing Office, would set the direction of the future of nursing care, Rachel Kenna, Chief Nursing Officer, Department of Health, told a HMI Dublin Mid Leinster regional meeting.

As a membership Institute, HMI offers a range of management and professional soft skills training to members and non-members alike to assist in the...

In June this year, the National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) celebrated the first anniversary of the opening of Phase One of its long-awaited new hospital development on the campus of the NRH, at Rochestown Avenue, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, writes Edel Lambe.

Mo Flynn has been appointed Director/CEO of the Voluntary Hospital Healthcare Forum.

Dr Deirdre Murray has been appointed new Director of the National Cancer Registry Ireland/Professor of Cancer Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at UCC. A Fellow of...

Sheila Campbell has taken on the role of CEO with Heart Children Ireland. Heart Children Ireland aims to enable all people affected by Congenital Heart Defects...

Amanda Pritchard has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of NHS England. Amanda is the first woman in the health service’s history to hold...

HSE Organisation Development – Change and Innovationhas developed a new CPD Certificate Programme (12points) – Delivering Change in Health Services. The CPD Certificate programme is a...

Planning permission has been granted for a new clinical medical school on the campus of Cork University Hospital, which is the major clinical teaching...

Child protection social workers have to walk a very narrow line between protecting children in their families and protecting them from their families. Well documented scandals have involved the failures of social workers to intervene soon enough, if at all - and failures involving premature or draconian interventions which were subsequently found to be unwarranted. While doctors differ and patients die, there is a public expectation that social workers will protect all of the children all of the time.

Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, is to get a major capital investment under the Health Capital Plan. This is the first major investment in Beaumont Hospital  since...

The HSE will spend over €983 million developing healthcare facilities across the country this year, according to the HSE Capital Plan for 2021, which was approved...

More than ever it was clear that we needed to streamline our management processes to allow more decisions to be made by the right...

Life expectancy in Ireland is now above the EU average, demonstrating the success achieved in supporting people to maintain good health as well as providing access...

There were over 60,000 referrals to community intervention teams in 2020, (32% greater than expected activity), according to the HSE Annual Report for the year. BowelScreen launched...

The HSE received revenue funding from the DoH of €19.451 billion for the provision of health and social care services in 2020.  This included the...

There were 886 patients treated every 24 hours in Tallaght University Hospital in 2020, according to the hospital’s annual report for the year. The average age of...