Monthly Archives: September, 2018

Future Health: From Vision To Action

An exciting group of speakers has been lined up for the 2018 HMI Annual Conference, which promises to be one of the highlights of...

Redefining the role of hospitals and innovating in population health

Redefining the role of hospitals in present day societies and innovation in population health will be the main topics to be debated at the...

President’s Message

An exciting 2018 HMI Conference

New countries want to join the EAHM

A number of new countries have approached the European Association of Hospital Managers (EAHM) Executive regarding possible membership, it was announced at the 11th...

Bill provides for new governance structure for HSE

A Bill which provides for a Board and CEO governance structure for the HSE, has been published by the Government. The Health Service Executive (Governance)...

New Chair for HSE Board

Mr Ciarán Devane is the Minister for Health’s designated Chairperson for the Board of the HSE, following a Public Appointments Service campaign to identify...

National Centralised Validation Unit

According to published National Data there are record numbers of patients in Ireland on either on Inpatient, Day case or Outpatient waiting lists. A...

New CEO, Mental Health Commission

Mr John Farrelly has been appointed as Chief Executive of the Mental Health Commission and takes up the post on October 30 next. Mr Farrelly...

Children’s Health Ireland

The Children’s Health Bill 2018, which has been published, provides for the establishment of a single statutory entity, Children’s Health Ireland to provide paediatric...

Bill clarifies legal parents of DAHR babies

The parents of a child born as a result of a donor-assisted human reproduction (DAHR) procedure will be the mother, (the woman who gave...

Over 50,000 patients seen in TUH Adult ED

Tallaght University Hospital had an increase in emergency activity in 2017, with attendance to the adult ED exceeding 50,000 patients for the first time...

HIQA inspection of reusable medical device decontamination

HIQA has begun inspecting how public acute hospitals are decontaminating and reprocessing reusable medical devices. To give hospitals and the public an overview of the...

Record number of people waiting for hospital treatment

A record number of more than 718,000 people were on hospital waiting lists at the end of August, according to the latest figures released...

€13m invested in acute healthcare in the border regions

On May18, the CAWT (Co-operation & Working Together) led Interreg VA Acute Project was formally launched at Letterkenny University Hospital, writes Seán Murphy, Chair...

EU investment in border health and well-being hubs

A four year, €5.01 million project for the development of a network of Locality Health and Well-being Hubs in the border regions of the...

Ageing Population a Time Bomb for Surgical Services

Ireland’s health system was facing a demographic time bomb which would have serious consequences for the delivery surgical services if not addressed now, according...

Merit award for herculean efforts

Members of the Tallaght University Hospital Dialysis Team who received a Special Merit Award from the hospital for their work to keep services going...

Special CEO Awards

Rev. John Kelly, Head of Pastoral Care and Joanne Coffey, Communications Manager at Tallaght University Hospital have received special CEO awards which recognised individuals...

Project Search Interns Graduate at Naas General Hospital

Naas General Hospital recently held a graduation ceremony for the Project Search interns who had completed the programme at the hospital. At the ceremony...

New Bill provides for mandatory open disclosure

The Government has given approval for the Patient Safety Bill, which for the first time will provide in law for mandatory open disclosure in...

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