Welcome from Breda Crehan-Roche, President of the Health Management Institute of Ireland.
Dear Readers,
It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the June edition...
An inclusive trauma system, in which all healthcare facilities are involved in the care of injured patients at a level commensurate with their capabilities...
Former HMI President, Lucy Nugent has been appointed Adjunct Associate Professor to the Centre for Health Policy and Management in the Discipline of Public...
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.