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Harney to attend US health care conference instead of INO
- 04 May 2006
Mary Harney, the Minister for Health, will not address the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) on Friday 5 May due to her prior commitment to lecture US health industry professions, business leaders and journalists on "Fostering Innovation: A Government Perspective". That day nurses are expected to vote for a motion of no confidence in her management of the current accident and emergency crisis.
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The uncertain threat of avian flu
- 06 April 2006
^Denise Grady and Gina Kolata answer some common questions about the deadly bird flu virus
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Harney's broken record on A&E
- 30 March 2006
- Sara Burke
Repeated promises on A&E have been broken by Mary Harney and there is still no eivdence that her declaration of a 'national emergency' will solve the A&E crisis. By Sara Burke
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Harney pushing two tier home care system
- 30 March 2006
Problems are already occuring with private home help in the Dublin area. Scott Millar reports
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Medical council confronts the horror of what happened at Loudres Hospital
- 23 March 2006
- Vincent Browne
The Medical Council has acted wisely in asking its Fitness to Practice Committee to review the professional conduct of the three Dublin obstetricians, who said in 1998 that Michael Neary, the Drogheda obstetrician, had no case to answer. This was the obstetrician who had subjected 129 women to caesarean hysterectomonies, a great many of them unnecessarily. The cases of Michael Nearly which the Dublin obstetricians reviewed were subsequently reviewed by a noted British obstetrician, who was appalled by what the cases revealed.
Add a commentCouncil fail to do fire audit on 'death trap' flats
- 23 March 2006
- Emma Browne
In 2002 an investigation into the deaths of two young children at the Bride Street/Ross Road flats in Dublin recommended that a fire safety audit be carried out by the council. Nearly four years on the audit has not been completed. Emma Browne reports
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HSE failed to deal with guardianship rights of father
- 16 March 2006
- Emma Browne
The health services failed to seek consent from a parent for early intervention treatment for his child despite previously getting legal advice in this area and being told they should. Emma Browne reports
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No reasons to believe Lourdes hospital horrors not going on elsewhere
- 09 March 2006
- vincent browne
There are a few startling observations in Maureen Harding Clarke's superb report on her inquiry in peripartum hysterectomy at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. On page 23 of her report she quotes a sister of the Medical Missionaries of Mary (“Sr B”) as saying: “Let me say that I was aware that hysterectomies were done in Ireland more often than was necessary because sterilisation was ethically not acceptable”.
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