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Extra 550 midwives needed for safe baby care, says INMO
A safe and high quality of care for mothers and newborns would require an extra 550 midwives in the health service, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has said. No maternity hospital or...
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Independent editorial: Mothers and babies should be protected in hospital...
A SURVEY by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has identified a wide variation in staffing levels in our maternity hospitals and the need for 554 extra midwives to reach what it says are...
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Emergency neurosurgical services
There is ambiguity as to who is responsible for the safety of critically ill patients who suffer a brain haemorrhage and are denied emergency neurosurgical or endovascular treatment. Beaumont and Cork...
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Survey shows major reductions in services for people with neurological...
A new survey by the Neurological Alliance of Ireland (NAI) has shown major reductions in access to vital community services and benefits for people with neurological conditions. The Government has...
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Cuts to South Tipperary’s mental health services
A local health service held up as “best mirroring” the Government’s stop-start ‘Vision for Change’ mental health reform is facing “serious cutbacks” due to staff shortages in the system. The...
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Stephen Murray on emergency neurosurgical services
Sir, – Jim Lawless, who sadly lost his wife to a brain haemorrhage in 2005, deserves our thanks in highlighting a serious issue regarding the treatment of patients who suffer a brain haemorrhage in the...
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Consultants warn on intensive care facilities
The State’s foremost intensive care consultants have expressed concern over the availability of resources for treating patients who need emergency medicine. In a letter in The Irish Times today the...
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Patrick Seigne, Brian O’Brien, Ivan Hayes, Robert Plant, Dorothy Breen, Rory...
We, the Council of the Intensive Care Society of Ireland (ICSI), wish to commend Mr Lawless on his motivation to address this matter and indeed on how constructively he has directed his grief following...
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Kidney patients forced to wait over a year for transplants from live donors
“The transplant team at Beaumont are striving to have a maximum of three to six months’ waiting time from ‘work-up’ to procedure,” the spokesperson said last night. “However, due to the current demands...
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‘Crude cuts’ have led to diminishing returns in health service
“Crude cuts” affecting the Irish health system have led to diminishing returns from 2013 onwards a working paper from the Trinity-based Resilience Project has found. The project looked at how well the...
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Departure of consultant dermatologists Colin Buckley and Sinead Field may...
“Given the population we are serving [the region has a population of c460,000], best practice says we should have five dermatologists. Yet I worked here single-handedly for 16 years and it’s not as if...
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Psychiatrists fear services failing suicidal people, conference told
Concerns are increasing among psychiatrists that mental health services are failing people who later take their own lives, a conference in Carlow was told today. “There is need for urgent clarification...
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Patient calls for Kenny and Reilly to visit overcrowded A&E
A patient recovering from a brain haemorrhage, who had to spend hours on a hospital trolley in a corridor, has called on Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister for Health James Reilly to visit the...
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Arthritis patients should wait months before surgery – Hiqa
Arthritic patients should have their condition treated with pain relief or physiotherapy for at least three months before being considered for a hip or knee replacement, a series of new reports...
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Mental health inspectorate to review patient safety following series of...
The State’s mental health watchdog is carrying out a review into the safety of patients accessing psychiatric services following the deaths of a number of patients. The Psychiatric Nurses Association...
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New surgeons can wait up to 12 months for theatre access
SOME newly recruited surgeons can wait up to a year to get proper access to hospital theatres in order to operate on patients. Dr Trevor Duffy, president of the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO), said a...
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Times editorial: Talks needed to progress GP care for all citizens
Any sudden expansion in eligibility in an already stretched service carries with it a risk to patient safety and therefore the system must be stress -tested in advance of this. But first both sides...
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Closure of up to west-northwest obstetric units mooted in report for HSE
The closure of up to four obstetric units in the west and northwest is mooted in a confidential report commissioned by the HSE. The units at Ballinasloe, Castlebar, Sligo and/or Letterkenny could close...
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Reilly denies planning to shut maternity units
Minister for Health James Reilly has said he has no plans to close any of the State’s 19 maternity units. Dr Reilly said a study commissioned by the HSE, which moots the closure of up to four obstetric...
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Charity urges HSE to give all cancer patients medical cards without delay
THE Irish Cancer Society (ICS) is calling on the HSE to ensure that all cancer patients undergoing treatment are issued medical cards without delay after a surge in applications to the organisation for...
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