Dr Patricia Casey said drug dealing is “a very regular problem” in the hospital, that has lead to increased security on the psychiatric ward. Her comments come after patients at psychiatric units at Mayo General and the Mid Western Regional…
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Mater hospital faces deficit of up to €19m as doctor overtime targeted
A confidential briefing note given to consultants in recent weeks said the Mater was facing a “serious deficit” for 2012. It said about half of the deficit “pertains to items which should be addressed through HSE reimbursements”. It is understood…
Mater hospital faces deficit of up to €19m as doctor overtime targeted
The Mater hospital in Dublin is understood to be facing a financial deficit which, in the “worst-case scenario”, could reach €19 million this year. The hospital has introduced a number of cost-saving measures and is in talks with the Health…
Mater boss appeals to Kenny over hospital site
St James’s Hospital is believed to have edged ahead of Connolly Hospital as the Government’s choice for the children’s hospital, provided planning concerns can be overcome on the south city site. But Professor Brendan Kinsley, chairperson of the Medical Board…
Cuts force hospital to shut down major surgical ward
ONE of the country’s biggest hospitals has shut a major surgical ward as the first in a wave of expected cutbacks begins to bite. The Mater hospital in Dublin, which has a waiting list of 5,295 patients in need of…
Brendan Kinsley, Stephanie Ryan and Sam Coulter-Smith on Mater site
[Letter to Examiner >] We write to you as a group of hospital consultants working in close collaboration across the Mater, Temple St, and Rotunda Hospitals, on the pressing national issue regarding where to locate the long and urgently awaited…
Tagged with: Development
Posted in Brendan Kinsley (Endocrinologist), Mater Dublin, National children's, Sam Coulter-Smith, Stephanie Ryan (Radiologist)
Posted in Brendan Kinsley (Endocrinologist), Mater Dublin, National children's, Sam Coulter-Smith, Stephanie Ryan (Radiologist)
Mater hospital makes top-up payments to two executives
The hospital said last night chief executive Brian Conlan was paid an additional sum of €25,625 per year which was related to executive oversight for the development of the new €284 million facility at the Mater hospital. (Times) >
Helen O’Neill re hospital catchment areas
[Letter to Times >] Sir, – For the past 18 years I have been referring patients who require a specialist ear, nose or throat opinion to the service in the Mater hospital. In the past three months my referral letters…
Mater take-off: adult patients at Dublin hospital to check in like airport passengers
THE FIRST phase of the new €284 million Mater adult hospital in Dublin unveiled yesterday will involve visitors to outpatients checking in like passengers at the airport. The hospital’s main entrance, on the North Circular Road, and its outpatients department…
New children’s hospital: Mater bid back on after nuns’ offer
The Irish Independent has learned that the Sisters of Mercy agreed to include the old Mater adult hospital in discussions for a new plan to beat the 56-day deadline set by the Government last month. (Indo) >
New plan to rescue Mater site for children’s hospital
THE MATER Hospital in Dublin has joined forces with the Rotunda and Temple Street hospitals in a campaign to rescue the national children’s hospital planned for the Mater site in Eccles Street. Speaking on behalf of the three hospitals, Temple…
Scaled-back version of Mater plan is only hope to get children’s hospital built on time
If planning, funding and expert advice are not to blame for the national children’s hospital project, why have things gone so badly? IT WOULD be hard to find a single project that better illustrates the mess that has been made…
Mater back to normal after bed warning
THE MATER hospital in Dublin was returning to normal yesterday evening after an alert just hours earlier warning the facility was operating at capacity. In an email to managers, staff were advised of the need for measures to be taken…
Red light for Mater proposal down to skyline fears
In what An Taisce described as “one of the most significant planning decisions in its history”, the board refused permission for the €650 million scheme, saying it would result in a “dominant, visually incongruous structure” in the northside Georgian core.…
St Vincent’s and Mater to merge
The Mater and St Vincent’s University Hospital, have agreed to come together under a joint governance structure from January 2013. The new structure will facilitate rapid and effective transfer of research ideas into clinical practice across the two hospital sites.…
Tagged with: Management
Posted in Beaumont, Connolly, Hospitals/Clinics, Mater Dublin, Research, St Vincents
Posted in Beaumont, Connolly, Hospitals/Clinics, Mater Dublin, Research, St Vincents
Frank McDonald: Still not too late to stop Mater hospital madness
The Government’s decision to proceed is all the more surprising given that former hospital development board chairman Philip Lynch – forced to resign more than a year ago after he queried the suitability of the site – branded the location…
Moves to cut numbers on hospital trolleys under way
Funding of €725,710 will be provided for a range of measures to tackle the lengthy waiting times for patients on trolleys at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. Measures agreed with the hospital to reduce trolley waiting times include the opening…
Tagged with: Trolleys
Posted in Beaumont, Cork University, Drogheda, Galway, Loughlinstown, Louth County, Mater Dublin, Navan, St Vincents, Tallaght
Posted in Beaumont, Cork University, Drogheda, Galway, Loughlinstown, Louth County, Mater Dublin, Navan, St Vincents, Tallaght
Children’s clinic a heartfelt tribute to transplant pioneer
His widow Pat and Health Minister James Reilly together opened the Maurice Neligan Congenital Heart Clinic at the Mater Hospital, which will specialise in the care of children born with heart defects. (Independent) >
Patients’ group criticises plan to close Mater car park
Stephen McMahon, chief executive of the Irish Patients’ Association, said asking ill people to park in car parks near O’Connell Street was like asking well people to park in Cork to get to Dublin. He questioned why staff spaces were…
Posted in Mater Dublin, Patients
Mater on course for deficit of up to €12m
ONE OF THE country’s largest hospitals, the Mater in Dublin, is putting in place cost-containment measures aimed at avoiding a projected deficit of € 10-€12 million by the end of the year, it has emerged. The university hospital yesterday confirmed…
