Yearly Archives: 2021

Significant progress has been has been made in establishing the first comprehensive Cancer Institute on the island of Ireland, integrating innovative science and medicine in the treatment and prevention of...

Ireland’s ageing, neglected and understaffed mental health facilities meant that many mentally ill people were living in or receiving treatment in unsuitable, run-down approved centres and we were...

The Mental Health Commission is reviewing the rules of seclusionin approved mental care centres and is also concerned that the level of compliance with individual care planning in the centres remans...

A five year strategy for the development of Emergency Medicine in Ireland has been drawn up by the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine. The Association...

Tallaght University Hospital has opened a new Oncology Day Unit, developed with the support of the Tallaght University Hospital Foundation (TUHF). The new unit is located within the hospital, in...

While the Irish hospital system adapted swiftly to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, reoccurring underlying issues of concern relating to non-compliance with national standards...

Croí, the heart disease and stroke charity based in Galway, has become the first Irish organisation to be accredited by the European Association of...

The HSE is progressing  the recommendation that ADA -SCID (Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency - Severe Combined Immunodeficiency) be added to the list of conditions screened as part...

The Bon Secours Hospital Cork has opened a dedicated Paediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, the first of its kind in the Munster region and the first private unit...

An art protect, ‘Bravery and Courage of Children' was recently donated to the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise. The series of artworks by fourth class students at Portarlington...

A new mobile health service has been introduced for all parts of Cork and Kerry in order to make support, information and interventions around...

Clare is providing a blueprint for the roll out of Lymphoedema Specialist Clinics across the country, with the first service of its kind in primary care...

The National Inpatient Experience Survey — the largest survey of its kind in Ireland — is taking place during the month of September. The survey...

Ni Neart go cur le chéile, HMI President, Tony Canavan said when he welcomed members, guests, distinguished speakers and delegates to the Health Management Institute’s 10th annual conference, last Wednesday.

Over 2,000 staff, with a particular focus on nursing and community therapists such as physios, psychologists, occupational therapists and speech and language therapists will be recruited to Community Health Networks as part of the Enhanced Community Care (ECC) Programme, Ms Mary Butler, Minister of State, Department of Health with special responsibility for Mental Health and Older People, said when she gave the opening address to the Conference.

The HSE is to appoint a new Director for Public Health for Children and a National Clinical Advisor and Group Lead (NCAGL) for Children, Dr Siobháin Ní Bhriain, National Lead, Integrated Care (NLIC), HSE told the Conference.

If there is one strong learning point for me and the HSE, it is that giving the system direction and letting them do the work proved really successful, HSE CEO, Mr. Paul Reid told the Conference.

It is inevitable if you try things for the first time that mistakes will be made and we need that culture of accepting the mistakes we made and don’t have what I always call a ‘gotcha’ culture, but a learning culture, that we learn both from things that go well and also from mistakes, Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Health, told the Conference.

Conference Moderator, Sharon Morrow says many questions had come in for Mr Reid and Mr Watt, but they would just have time for a few.

She had no doubt all stakeholders would agree that the enhanced cooperation and collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and the HSE and Department of Health during the pandemic should be carried into the future, Ms Eimear Caslin, General Manager for GSK Ireland, a long time sponsor of the HMI, told the Conference.