Galway University Hospital (GUH) is the only public hospital in Ireland performing prostate (seed implant) brachytherapy. This is a technique to treat prostate cancer by strategically placing radioactive seeds inside the prostate gland where they remain to irradiate the malignant…
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Daily Archives: April 17, 2012
Cancer care designed around patients
Soon, McMillan and the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will open the UK’s most advanced cancer hospital, following an investment by the charity of £10 million in cash and 100 years worth of experience. The North London hospital…
Primary care for travellers
Traveller women’s life expectancy is 11 years less than the settled population and 15 years for men. The population pyramid for Travellers in Ireland is like that of a third-world population, according to Brigid Quirke, Pavee Point’s national health adviser.…
Government’s plan for reform revealed in detail
THE GOVERNMENT believes that all the preparatory work for its radical transformation of the health service into a system operated on the basis of a universal health insurance, will be completed by 2016. In briefing material for the new group…
Reluctance to test leaving many with HIV unaware
Dr Colm O’Mahony, a HIV specialist from Dundalk who works with the Countess of Chester NHS Trust Hospital UK, said an estimated 1,500 HIV sufferers remain undiagnosed in Ireland. Dr O’Mahony was addressing the Irish Society of Gastroenterology meeting on…
Nurses want more training in palliative care
JUST ONE in three staff working in three public long-stay care units for elderly patients in Dublin had been educated in palliative care at the beginning of an Irish Hospice-sponsored study. Some 98 per cent had expressed an interest in…
Minister reveals intermediate care plan for elderly
THE MINISTER for Health has said the Government is to spend €28 million to establish a new intermediate care tier, to assess and treat older people while ensuring that they do not enter into long-term care earlier than is necessary.…
Reilly seeks new talks on negotiations for GP fees
MINISTER FOR Health James Reilly has proposed new talks between Government departments, the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) and the Competition Authority to try to agree a deal on doctors’ representatives negotiating with the State in relation to GP fees without…
New prostate cancer treatment gives ‘perfect results’ for nine in ten men
A study has found that focal HIFU, high-intensity focused ultrasound, provides the ‘perfect’ outcome of no major side effects and free of cancer 12 months after treatment, in nine out of ten cases. Traditional surgery or radiotherapy can only provide…
On-call doctor provided ‘sub-optimal care’
AN ON-CALL doctor about whom complaints were made by the family of a woman who died of a heart attack has been found to have provided “sub-optimal care” by a Medical Council fitness-to-practise committee. The committee found that while it…
Swords proposal for children’s hospital
A HEALTHCARE group has said it could build the proposed national paediatric hospital on a greenfield site in Swords by as early as 2016 at that location for less than the €650 million budget. The Broadmeadow Healthcare Group has proposed…
