The Paediatric Hospital Development Board has published a “prior information notice” in the EU Journal and on the Government’s e-tenders website in relation to a forthcoming tender competition for the work. (Independent) >
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Serious gaps remain in what we know about operations in the hospital
Two inquiries down into the death of Savita Halappanavar and it is now abundantly clear that a cascade of errors and uncertainty about the law on abortion contributed largely to her death. The report of the HSE inquiry team chaired by Prof Sir…
Posted in Galway
Fall in health cover a factor in €9.8m loss at Beacon Hospital in 2012
The Dublin-based private hospital, owned by US not-for-profit group, University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre (UPMC), is due to publish accounts shortly for its 2012 financial year, which ended on June 30th. Chief executive Joel Yuhas said yesterday that falling reimbursement rates, the…
Hospitals set for funding overhaul
A new system of funding public hospitals in Ireland is to be introduced by January 2014 that promises to be fairer, more efficient and more transparent than the current model. The activity-based funding model funds episodes of care as opposed to the…
40 births a day leave National Maternity Hospital struggling to cope
Pressure faced by the hospital, which is struggling to cope in an outdated building in Holles Street in Dublin, is outlined in a report by the master, Dr Rhona Mahony. Dr Mahony’s report points out that the hospital’s current volume…
Gerry Burke on raising money to build new maternity hospitals
€100 million in capital for the Limerick project equates to about €10 per annum for 26 years for each of the 378,000 citizens of the Mid-West region. If that were to be collected through the progressive Local Property Tax system,…
Head of Reilly’s special delivery unit to leave
The British expert appointed by Minister for Health James Reilly to cut hospital waiting lists and the number of people on trolleys in emergency departments is to leave his post. The Irish Times understands that Dr Martin Connor, senior policy adviser to thespecial delivery…
Maternity hospital move is good news for mothers and babies
Dr Rhona Mahony, the master of the National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street, Dublin, spoke yesterday of how upset she feels for mothers who must endure the crowded conditions in its building dating from the 19th Century. It is the…
Psychiatric unit dangerous, says union
The Psychiatric Nurses’ Association (PNA) yesterday claimed conditions at a dedicated unit in Kerry General Hospital, where three male nurses were assaulted by a disturbed patient, are dangerous. The nurses were treated at the Tralee hospital’s emergency department and went…
Holles Street hopital site to be handed over to State after relocation
Construction of the National Maternity Hospital on a new site at St Vincent’s hospital will be completed by 2018, according to the Master of the hospital, Dr Rhona Mahony. Dr Mahony described the five-year timeframe for completion of the €150 million project as…
Locating children’s hospital
The lesson of the attempt to locate the children’s hospital at the Mater site is clear. The site was too small and was turned down by the planning appeals board. Here, again, we already know the preferred site is too…
Lorcan Birthistle on caring for children with cancer
The welfare of our patients in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, is the single most important priority for our care teams. While staff and patients have endured difficult and constrained conditions due to the age of our building, we have…
Hospital waiting list soars by 88%
New figures revealed by the Department of Health show that despite Health Minister Dr James Reilly’s repeated attempts to cut times, the number of patients waiting more than half a year has risen by a massive 88% since December. (Examiner)…
New Crumlin Hospital Group (Louis Roden) re plan for new children’s hospital
Seriously sick kids are not interested in hearing the political wrangling over the site. Some of them have moved on to adult facilities and shamefully it is already too late for them. Some have died experiencing the awful facilities in…
Posted in National children's
Cancer facilities for the young still a scandal: ex-patient
I’m lucky, I live a life that I love living, with friends that I love being around. It took me a while, after all my treatments, to adapt to just living and behaving in a normal manner again. But I…
End the high charges at private hospitals
At no time did I occupy a bed or recliner. For this 90 minutes at the Mater Private Hospital the charge was €1,175 for the room, excluding the surgeon and anaesthesiologist fees. This is an obscene amount of money to…
Plan to move 26 patients in open setting to locked ward ‘appalling’
Plans to transfer patients with acute mental illness from a large open campus outside Cork city to a city-centre locked ward, have been described as “appalling” by the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA). Under proposals contained in a draft HSE discussion…
Reilly ‘finds’ €18m to try to tackle A&E overcrowding and waiting lists
Five hospitals with recurring trolley problems and long patient waiting times will be scrutinised as part of a new National Intervention Strategy, which will involve teams of between five and 10 people from the SDU carrying out day-long site visits,…
Doctors re plan for new children’s hospital
Dr JERRY KELLEHER, Dr FIN BREATNACH, Dr DESMOND DUFF, Dr FRIEDA GORMAN, Prof EDWARD J GUINEY, Prof BARRY O’DONNELL, Prof O CONOR WARD: “As a group of independent retired paediatric specialists we have no partisan interests, we are not suggesting…
Wind-up order for cosmetic surgery clinic in PIP implants case
The Harley Medical Group (Ireland) Limited, Herbert Place, Dublin petitioned the High Court for a winding up order and appointment of a liquidator on grounds it is insolvent and unable to pay its debts. The British Virgin Islands-registered company began…
Posted in Hospitals/Clinics
Two more hospitals lose emergency departments
St Columcille’s Hospital in Loughlinstown, Dublin – in the constituency of Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore – and Navan Hospital in Co Meath are earmarked to lose the service and get local injury units instead. They are among nine smaller hospitals earmarked for overhauls…
Irish Times editorial: Hospital reform
In the light of such a poor track record of aspiration followed by inaction, can the latest effort to reconfigure hospitals work? (Times) >
Children’s hospital delayed until at least 2019
The new national children’s hospital is unlikely to be ready until 2019 “at the earliest”, according to sources involved in planning the project. This is three years later than promised in the programme for government and at least a year…
Virus-hit disability unit closed to new patients
The contagious virus, called human metapneumovirus (hMPV), broke out at St Joseph’s Disability Service, which is part of the St Ita’s Psychiatric Hospital campus in Portrane, north Dublin. Frances Plunkett, communications officer of HSE Dublin North East said staff at…
Six new hospital groups
The six new hospital groups are as follows: Dublin North East; Dublin Midlands; Dublin East; South/South West; West/North West; Midwest. Dublin North East: Beaumont Hospital; Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; Connolly Hospital; Cavan General Hospital; Rotunda Hospital; Louth County…
Dublin Academic Medical Centre welcomes new Dublin East Hospital Group
The Board of Dublin Academic Medical Centre (DAMC) welcomes the establishment of the Dublin East Hospital Group announced by the Minister for Health, Dr James Reilly T.D. following the publication of “The Report on the Establishment of Hospital Groups as…
Hospitals give broad welcome to new reforms
The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI)’s teaching hospitals academic network – encompassing Beaumont Hospital, Connolly Hospital, the Cavan-Monaghan Hospital Group, the Louth-Meath Hospital Group and the Rotunda Hospital – said the move would create six “academic health centres”…
Plan to split hospital system sparks fears for patient care
Doctors will be recruited to work in the group rather than a particular hospital. The benefit for patients is that it could cut waiting lists – although patients may have to travel to another hospital within the group to have…
Dublin hospital makes strides in creating personalised cancer tests
A cost-efficient test which could identify up to 50 different cancer mutations is being developed at St James’s Hospital in Dublin. St James’s is part of an international consortium involved in biomarking testing for mutant genes such as Her2 involved…
Green light today for six hospital groups
Minister for Health James Reilly will today announce what he claims is the most fundamental reform of Irish hospitals in decades after Cabinet signs off on the reorganisation of the system into six independent groups. The Government is also expected to give…
