The problem relates to delays in typed radiology reports, which include X-rays, CT, MRI and ultrasound scans. These have been read by a specialist and the results dictated on to tapes for a report to be typed by clerical staff…
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Tallaght Hospital ‘can’t explain’ €700k in top-up fees to 5 staff
A major audit of the unusual spending has found Tallaght Hospital is unable to provide any documents showing why the significant amount of money was handed out between 2005 and 2010. The Ernst and Young financial investigation was launched last…
Posted in Tallaght
Tallaght hospital needs €51m to get to end of the year
Tallaght hospital spent its annual budget by September and needs another €51 million to get to the end of the year, it has told the Health Service Executive. The HSE is providing the hospital with an additional €21.6 million provided…
Hospital spent €1.8m on deals that broke transparency rules, says review
The independent review into Tallaght Hospital’s finances shows the facility spent €1.8m in 2010 without undergoing clearly stated vetting procedures. (Examiner) >
Overdraft move by hospital makes sense, says minister
It made “absolute sense” for a major acute hospital to use an overdraft facility to manage its cash flow problems, Health Minister James Reilly said yesterday. He was responding to questions about Tallaght Hospital in Dublin obtaining an overdraft facility…
Posted in Hospitals/Clinics, Tallaght
Kenny praises Tallaght hospital
TALLAGHT HOSPITAL was “transforming itself into what we want it to be”, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said in the Dáil, describing Government health policy as “generational reform”. (Times) >
Tallaght Hospital forced into €12m overdraft to keep treating patients
Tallaght Hospital is getting the money from Allied Irish Banks to carry on after over-spending by more than €10m so far this year. The 625-bed hospital will not receive any bailout from the Health Service Executive (HSE). (Medical Independent) >
Five hospitals run up €65m in combined overspending
The biggest overspend was at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, which was €17.9 million over budget by the end of July, the report found. The Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Dooradoyle, Limerick, was over by €14 million, Cork University Hospital had a €10 million…
Tagged with: Budgets
Posted in Beaumont, Cork University, Galway, Hospitals/Clinics, Limerick, Tallaght
Posted in Beaumont, Cork University, Galway, Hospitals/Clinics, Limerick, Tallaght
Mental health beds now in firing line
The HSE is targeting mental health and acute hospitals in Dublin, according to a leaked document outlining how it will cut €130m nationally. It is proposed that 25 mental health beds would close, affecting, primarily, the Central Mental Hospital and…
Tallaght Hospital faces two reviews
Two separate reviews into why Tallaght Hospital spent millions of euro on non-tendered external consultancy work and ‘top-up’ payments for high-ranking staff are under way. (Examiner) >
Hospital signs up €340,000 advisers to boost efficiency
The Irish Independent has learnt that Tallaght hospital has hired DMGM Ltd on a two-year contract for €340,000 to help boost efficiency. (Indo) >
Ex-Tallaght Hospital chair ‘disappointed’ at criticisms
Alan Gillis, a former Fine Gael MEP who served on Tallaght’s board for 10 years, said the report was “harsh” and failed to take into account the difficulties facing management. (Irish Independent) >
Tallaght ignored the rules to hire €1.8m consultants
Responding to the report yesterday, Tallaght Hospital chief executive Eilish Hardiman, who took over in August last year, said four of the five executives were no longer employed by the hospital. “By way of explanation, the new interim board was made aware…
Report is first step to safer health service
The decision by the State’s chief medical officer, Dr Tony Holohan, to refer the report to both the Medical Council and An Bord Altranais is a clear indication that he and others in the Department of Health believe certain individuals…
Chairman of interim Tallaght hospital board cites ‘failure of leadership’
At a press conference yesterday following the publication by the Health Information and Quality Authority of a report following its investigation into the hospital, Sir Keith Pearson said people would not want to be accommodated on a trolley in a…
Tallaght hospital report due
A report by the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) into the safety of care provided to patients requiring emergency admission at Tallaght hospital is to be published today. The patient safety watchdog conducted a year-long investigation into the running…
Tallaght offer for children’s hospital
A PROPOSAL to build the new national children’s hospital in Tallaght has been formally submitted by Tallaght hospital and South Dublin County Council. Eilísh Hardiman, chief executive of Tallaght hospital, said the proposal envisaged “an overarching campus governance arrangement”. This…
HSE €53m over-budget by end of February
Tallaght and Beaumont hospitals had overruns of about €1.7 million each while St Vincent’s hospital had a deficit of €1.3 million, with the figure for St James’s Hospital at about €1 million. (Times) >
Letter re co-location in Tallaght
Co-location is one of the key concepts being flung around (or rubbished) in the debate following the refusal of the children’s hospital planning permission by An Bord Pleanala. Its merits do not depend on a statistical headcount of how many…
Muiris Houston on options for new national children’s hospital
One solution that must now be considered is Tallaght hospital. It has the space, and if the Coombe women’s hospital were to move there, the minimum criteria of a co-located maternity hospital is met, with the added bonus of adult…
Four hospitals owed €60m in unpaid patient fees
The debt is made up of unpaid charges by health insurance companies, emergency department fees, inpatient bed charges and other patient fees. Tallaght Hospital in Dublin had the largest amount owed to it, at €16.4m. It was closely followed by…
Ex-NHS expert gets Tallaght post
Sir Keith Pearson has been nominated by Church of Ireland Archbishop Michael Jackson of Dublin to the board of the hospital. The Department of Health said yesterday that, subject to election by the board, Sir Keith will be the new…
Radical reforms for Tallaght hospital
THE BOARD of Tallaght hospital in Dublin is to be slimmed down and its existing charter replaced by way of legislation as part of major changes to its governance arrangements. “The unique history of Tallaght hospital, combining as it does [in…
Meeting today on plan for changes at Tallaght hospital
In a statement last night, the hospital said the changes recommended by the board were being considered by the three constituent foundations of the hospital which came together at the Tallaght site in 1998 – the former Adelaide, Meath and…
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
Doctors differ, taxpayers suffer
The unseemly squabble between Tallaght Hospital and the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) raises further disturbing questions about the running of one of the State’s largest hospitals. A series of damning inquests this year revealed that there were serious…
Hospital is ‘fully co-operating’ with health authority’s inquiry
TALLAGHT HOSPITAL has insisted it is “fully co-operating” with an investigation by health watchdog Hiqa into the safety of patient care in the hospital’s emergency department. The hospital has engaged a major law firm, AL Goodbody, to represent it regarding…
Tallaght reopens ward to ease beds crisis
TALLAGHT Hospital has not had to move any patients on trolleys to a corridor in the past week to relieve emergency overcrowding. The accident and emergency department was ordered by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) to stop placing…
Triona Murphy, Fergus O’Ferrall & Ian Graham on Tallaght hospital maladies
TALLAGHT HOSPITAL is rarely out of the news: worrying issues have arisen in relation to radiology services, GP referral letters, care in accident and emergency, and the outsourcing of patient correspondence. Superficially it may appear that such concerns are due…
