MALLOW PRIMARY Healthcare Centre (MPHC) is the first medical/healthcare institution in the UK and Ireland to win an internationally recognised health and safety standard. The centre was awarded the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Specification by European Quality Assurance (EQA)…
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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Headlines week of 24th July
Drumm warns over further cuts The health service cannot absorb a further €600 million in cuts without it affecting people at some level, the out-going chief executive of the Health Service Executive has said. In an interview with RTE this…
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Irish doctor recounts Uganda experience
An Irish doctor in Uganda has recounted her experience of setting up hospices in Africa in a book published yesterday, writes Alison Healy. Dr Anne Merriman (75), a former nun with the Irish Medical Missionaries of Mary, wrote Audacity to…
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Headlines week July18
Doctor in fatal cancer case faces three-month suspension Garda Supt Martin Dorney (50), Waterfall, Ballincollig, Co Cork, a father of three children, has been given just months to live arising out of the failure by Ballincollig, Co Cork-based GP Dr…
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Galway researchers secure funding for titanium implants
(From Irish Times) RESEARCHERS IN Galway are working on new orthopaedic implants which should help to improve their lifespan. The National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) team recently secured a €400,000 Enterprise Ireland commercialisation fund technology development grant for the…
Headlines week July 10th
Hospitals record €112m deficits up to May, says HSE HOSPITALS ACROSS the State recorded deficits of €112 million in the first five months of the year, according to new figures compiled by the Health Service Executive (HSE). (Irish Times) >>>…
Week July 5th headlines
Doctor never saw patient’s lab results The results of a test that would have indicated the severe illness of a patient at St James’s Hospital in Dublin last year were available, but they were not picked up by her doctor,…
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