A Dickensian tale of two Houses
Dara Gantly Against a backdrop of accusations regarding ‘planted’ questions in the names of backbenchers, Dara Gantly weighs up whether last week’s health-related activity in the Houses of the...
View ArticleSay ‘HI’ and wave goodbye to health inequalities?
Health Minister Dr James Reilly Dara Gantly Dara Gantly hopes the Government’s new national framework document Healthy Ireland overcomes its slightly ‘tainted’ first steps into the world and builds a...
View ArticleLessons from Mid Staffordshire
Dara Gantly Dara Gantly on what Ireland can learn from the Mid Staffordshire inquiry. The scale of the Mid Staffordshire debacle in Britain really hits home when put into the context of deaths caused...
View ArticleState backs plan for six groups
Prof John Higgins By Gary Culliton. The Government has committed itself to the formation of hospital groups which the Minister for Health, Dr James Reilly, regards as pivotal to the “most fundamental...
View ArticleWelcome to the jungle
Dara Gantly Dara Gantly on two years of broken promises in primary care. It’s worth reminding ourselves what the programme for government actually promised back in March 2011. Universal Primary Care...
View ArticleFree GP care plan in freefall
Poster boys for UHI: Enda Kenny and Dr James Reilly The abandonment of the first phase of delivering free GP care to all points to an extraordinary level of Dr Muiris Houston incompetence somewhere in...
View ArticleHospital groups: now we are six
Dara Gantly Dara Gantly on the promise of the newly-published Higgins Report. When the Adelaide, Meath, and National Children’s Hospitals merged in 1998, it was not only the 115 patients who were...
View ArticleMore unnecessary referrals
Photo by WestEnd61 / Rex Features Dear Editor, Prof Arnold Hill has made an error (‘The trauma of change and surgical upheaval’, IMT, May 10, 2013, http://bit.ly/1axXC61). In 2010 there were 38,000...
View ArticleGPs fear ‘false negative’
Photo by Monkey Business Images / Rex Features Dear Editor, Prof Arnold Hill’s comments concerning “unnecessary referrals” to specialist breast clinics deserve comment (‘The trauma of change and...
View ArticleOn sweating the small stuff
Dara Gantly This week, Dara Gantly examines the Smaller Hospitals Framework report. The publication of ‘Securing the Future of Smaller Hospitals: A Framework Development’, alongside the Higgins Report,...
View ArticleUHI plan ‘will lead to higher costs’
Dr Brian Turner, Economist By Gary Culliton. There was no evidence the planned move to universal health insurance (UHI) here would produce benefits sufficient to justify the disruption that such a...
View ArticleUHI — a trail of brass tacks
‘It was popular in the beginning, but costs are spiralling and the satisfaction ratings are falling’ Spiddal GP Dr Seamus O’Beirn hears from the fictitious family, their GP, HSE official, Dáil...
View ArticleDoH sets up new co-ordination plan
By Lloyd Mudiwa. An “appropriately resourced” Programme Management Office (PMO) is being set up within the Department of Health to provide a central, overarching, co-ordination function to drive the...
View ArticleNot another 24 hours!
Dr Shane Considine EWTD compliance will require wholesale structural changes in the way the health service and hospitals are organised, accepts NCHD Committee member Dr Shane Considine, but a 24-hour...
View ArticleWorking together to achieve a sustainable healthcare system
Pascale Richetta, Vice President, Western Europe and Canada Operations, AbbVie Priscilla Lynch talks to Pascale Richetta, Vice President, Western Europe and Canada Operations, AbbVie, about...
View ArticleCut in health manager numbers urged by IHCA
Martin Varley, IHCA By Lloyd Mudiwa. The ongoing restructuring of the HSE provides an opportunity to finally reduce the numbers of managers and administrators in the health service, which would go...
View ArticleA manifesto for medical change
Photo by Image Broker / Rex Features Dear Editor, I am musing about the health system, which is under a lot of pressure and is understaffed. I am also aware of the migration of our medical graduates...
View ArticleAct brings HSE Directorate into being
Minister James Reilly By Catherine Reilly. The HSE Directorate was finally officially established late last month following the enactment of the HSE (Governance) Act. Welcoming the development on July...
View ArticleIs the ‘Future Health’ strategy pie in the sky?
Photo by Image Broker / Rex Features Dear Editor, Reading the ‘Future Health: A Strategic Framework for Reform of the Health Service 2012-2015’, published last November and comparing it with the...
View ArticleFunding changes may pose a problem
‘Money Follows the Patient’ is fundamental to funding the planned Universal Health Insurance (UHI) system. In the concluding part of his series comparing contending health models, Gary Culliton...
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