Yearly Archives: 2023

Appointed to Higher Education Expert Advisory Panel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

First Robotic Guided Coronary Intervention in Ireland and the UK

Galway University Hospitals have carried out the first Robotic Guided Coronary Intervention in Ireland and the UK. The innovative procedure combines the benefits of coronary...

Government Approves Policy Proposals on International Surrogacy

Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly, together with Justice Minister, Heather Humphreys and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman, have  received...

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