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New President of Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

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Dr Louise Kavanagh McBride has been elected  President of The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI, the regulator for the professions of nursing and...

New Network Director

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Prof Charles Gillham has been appointed as the new Network Director of St Luke's Radiation Oncology Network. Prof Gillham has been a Consultant Radiation Oncologist...

Appointed to Higher Education Expert Advisory Panel

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Sheila McClelland, CEO of The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland has been appointed to a new Expert Advisory Panel set up by the...

Government gives go-ahead to Cork and Galway Elective Hospitals

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The Government has approved the development of new Elective Hospitals in Cork and Galway and the next stage of the Enhanced Provision of Elective...

Government to Establish Interdepartmental Working Group to examine the rising cost of health-related claims

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Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly, has set up an Interdepartmental Working Group “to examine the rising cost of health-related claims and consider mechanisms to reduce...

New Urgent & Express Cardiac Care Clinic at Bon Secours Hospital, Cork

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The Cardiology Department of the Bon Secours Hospital, Cork has launched a new Urgent & Express Cardiac Care Clinic. This Urgent and Express Cardiac Care...

Hospitals and service providers must apply to HIQA for generic justification of new practices involving medical exposure to ionising radiation

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HIQA is now accepting applications from hospitals and service providers in the public and private sectors for the generic justification of new practices involving...

Minister Donnelly launches public consultation on patient voice partners policy in Irish health and social care

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Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly, has launched a public consultation on a draft national policy for the remuneration of certain categories of patient representatives to...

National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine in Ireland

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The National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine in Ireland which outlines the approach for developing a patient and family centred genetic and...

Improvements in fracture care in Ireland

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Improvements in fracture care in Ireland over the last five years were shown in the Irish Hip Fracture Database National Report 2017-2021. The report, which...

Ninety-four per cent of hip fracture patients brought directly to operating hospital

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Ninety-four per cent of the patients who suffered a hip fracture were brought directly to the operating hospital, 84% of patients were admitted from...

Ireland’s first mental health research and evaluation strategy

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The Health Research Board is to develop Ireland’s first mental health research and evaluation strategy. This new strategy is a HRB-led deliverable under the national...

Paracetamol and ibuprofen medicines most associated with queries to Poisons Centre

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Paracetamol and ibuprofen were the medicines most associated with queries to the National Poisons Information Centre of Ireland centre in 2021, according to their...

Treatment of pregnant unmarried women

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A researcher from Queen’s University Belfast is to examine how unmarried women who became pregnant from 1945 - 2015 were treated in Northern Ireland. The...

Tallaght University Hospital Developing Chronic Pancreatitis App

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Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) and its interdisciplinary Chronic Pancreatitis team has developed an innovative mobile phone app, termed the SmartCP app, for patients with...

Using data for decision making to improve quality and safety

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Governance of quality and safety can be very challenging in large complex healthcare organisations such as the Irish Health Service Executive, writes Dr. Gemma...

Seven new Community Nursing Homes

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Contracts to deliver seven Community Nursing Units (CNUs) under the HIQA compliance programme through Public Private Partnership (CNU PPP Project), have been awarded by...

New Infectious Diseases Isolation Facility

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A new HSE Infectious Diseases Isolation Facility has been opened at St. Ita’s Campus in Portrane, Co. Dublin. The 43-bed, 24/7 facility is for residents...

Additional acute and community capacity urgently needed – HIQA

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Following inspections of seven Emergency Departments, HIQA found that during 2022, the Irish health system was under unprecedented strain as it continued to see...

HIQA’s review of international guidelines to treat long COVID finds personalised and holistic approaches recommended

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An international review by HIQA of clinical guidelines and/or models of care for the diagnosis and management of long COVID,  found that most guidelines...
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