‘‘My huge concern is that this won’t happen. There is clearly a lot of divisiveness about the site, but anyone with any sense of realpolitik about them would know that this project could disappear very quickly,” said Professor Billy Bourke,…
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Daily Archives: April 4, 2011
A green field hospital for children?
Smyth has a large site just off the M50 near Newlands Cross, which he said was far more suitable than the Mater. However, speaking to The Sunday Business Post last week, he insisted that his proposal was not site-driven; he…
Blackrock Clinic still enjoying rude health after 25 years
The Blackrock Clinic, which celebrates its 25th anniversary today, enjoyed an occupancy rate of 88 per cent in March. The founders of the hospital – the first private independent hospital in the country – said that, while the economic environment…
Smyth says EIB will back his hospital plan
Property developer Noel Smyth has said the sudden resignation of the chairman of the proposed national children’s hospital may have had to do with the legal constraints on the location of the project. Smyth, who has renewed his offer to…
Hospital supporters ‘betrayed’ by HSE silence
A VOLUNTARY group which has fund-raised for years to prop up services at a community hospital in Co Cork says it feels “disgusted and betrayed” by the HSE’s refusal to say what’s happening about repeated promises to extend the facility.…
Central Mental Hospital signs first conditional discharge
THE first ever order for a conditional discharge from the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) has been signed under new legislation which allows for the recall of patients if strict rules are breached. The new law is an amendment to the…
David Charles Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist
“Removing the nodules will improve the voice, but very often follow-up with voice therapy is essential to ensure the problem does not recur. “Lifestyle change is also necessary. This is a problem with teachers, yet even though we know this,…
Health insurance market and VHI role for review
Mr Reilly has spoken of the VHI’s “dominance” of the market after the recent closure of the Cork Medical Centre, which failed to secure cover from the VHI. ”We are going to set about this in an aggressive fashion,” the…
A model for medical care?
The patient was admitted that day to my own – I suppose “multi-disciplinary” – centre, where we do blood tests, X-rays, and a multitude of medical and surgical procedures. Under general anaesthesia we removed the mass and sent it for…
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