Yearly Archives: 2025

New enforcement powers for residential care centres for older people and people with disabilities

New enforcement powers to residential care centres for older people and people with disabilities to ensure people are receiving safe, quality care have been...

New HSE Patient App

The HSE has launched a new Health App which allows patients to carry a list of their current medications, their  medical card, European health insurance...

Call for Establishment of Regulator to Oversee Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

The Minister for Health and the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment have been urged to appoint an independent regulator and commissioner to oversee...

Valve replacement without open heart surgery

The Mater Private Hospital in Dublin has become the first private hospital in the country to perform a transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement using the...

Reducing overprescribing of benzodiazepines, z-drugs, and gabapentinoids in Ireland

Recommendations aimed at reducing the initiation and overprescribing  of benzodiazepines, z-drugs, and gabapentinoids in Ireland, have been made by a multiagency Working Group established...

Consultant workforce in Emergency Medicine will need to almost double in size by 2038

It is anticipated that the consultant workforce in Emergency Medicine in Ireland will need to almost double in size by 2038, according to a...

RCSI supports updated Green Theatre Checklist to advance sustainable surgery

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) has played a key role in updating the Green Theatre Checklist, a sustainability initiative designed to...

Minister for Health launches the HSE National Genomic Test Directory for Rare and Inherited Disease

Health Minister, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD has launched the HSE National Genomic Test Directory for Rare and Inherited Disease (Test Directory). The development and publication...

Guidance on best practice for developing and managing a robotic assisted surgery programme

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland has issued a guidance document on best practice for hospitals looking to develop and manage a robotic...

University Hospital Galway carries out innovative cardiac procedure

University Hospital Galway has become the first public hospital in the country to employ the minimally invasive convergent procedure, for the treatment of atrial...

Physician Associates Cannot Be Seen As A Substitute For Doctors – Medical  Council

The Medical Council has issued a statement articulating its  position on the scope of practice and regulation of physician associates (PAs) in the Irish...

Families requiring access to genetic testing and clinical expertise facing significant challenges

Families requiring access to genetic testing and clinical genetic expertise are facing significant challenges in their personal lives due to the lack of access to correct expertise and...

A decrease In Number of Patients With A Heart Attack Brought Directly To Specialist Hospitals

The number of patients brought directly by ambulance to a PCI centre following a heart attack decreased from 58% in 2021 to 55% in...

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