“Significant risk issues” have been identified in hospital services at Our Lady’s Hospital Navan, Louth County Hospital, Mallow General Hospital, Ennis, Nenagh, Roscommon County Hospital, Portlaoise, St Columcille’s Hospital (Dublin), Bantry Hospital and St John’s Hospital (Limerick). In a briefing…
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Daily Archives: July 8, 2011
Consultants blamed for poor training of doctors
HOSPITAL CONSULTANTS have been blamed for the poor training of junior doctors by Wexford Fine Gael TD Liam Twomey. He said it would be generous of him to say his own training was only haphazard. “I can honestly say disaster…
Other protests likely as two more hospitals to close units
The emergency department in Mallow hospital is to be closed and replaced by a smaller-scale urgent care centre in November, members of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee were told yesterday. Meanwhile, the critical care unit in St Columcille’s Hospital in…
GPs in area call on Reilly to ‘tell the truth’ about closure
“If this was a safety issue, the hospital would have received adequate resources before now,” the GPs’ spokesman, Martin Daly, said last night. (Times) >>>
Hospital doctors not washing their hands
UP TO half of all hospital doctors do not wash their hands properly and are putting patient safety at risk, according to the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland. The college’s policy group on healthcare-associated infection yesterday published a paper, What…
Call for consultants to agree to seven-day working roster
HOSPITAL CONSULTANTS will have to agree to seven-day working under changes to be made as part of the Croke Park agreement, HSE chief executive Cathal Magee has warned. Prof Gary Courtney, national acute medicine lead in the HSE, said it…
HSE says hospitals will cope despite doctor shortage
THE HSE has said it doesn’t anticipate any impact on services for patients attending hospitals from next week as a result of a shortfall of more than 150 junior doctors. The HSE was unable to say where the biggest staff…
€110,000 for widower against HSE over death of his wife
THE HUSBAND of a woman with breast cancer, who claimed her life was wrongfully cut short due to alleged failures at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Ennis, Co Clare, to diagnose a recurrence of her illness, has secured €110,000 in settlement…
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