Monthly Archives: August 2010

3 Hospitals responsible for longest waiting lists in Ireland

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Patient Waiting Lists

Patient Waiting Lists

There are 3 main Hospitals responsible for the longest Surgical waiting lists in Ireland.

Approx 50% of all patients waiting over a year for surgery are under the care of -

Tallaght Hospital

Temple St Children’s Hospital

Midland Regional, Tullamore

This is in accordance with the latest figures from the National Patient Register

 At the end of April, 611 patients were waiting over 12 months for Surgical Procedures.

115 of these were Tallaght Hosp, 79, Temple St and 73, Tullamore.

Some positive news though. Compared to the figures collated from last year, this is a nearly 50% decline in numbers of patients waiting over a year.

A spokesperson for the National Treatment Purchase Fund – NTPF made the point that the average waiting time across all Specialties across the Public system in Ireland for both Surgery and Medicine remains at a historical low of 2-3 months.

The NTPF are now concentrating on the few patients left waiting still over a year for Surgery with the hope they can help in reducing this waiting time.

The Honest Recruiter?

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The Honest Recruiter

The Honest Recruiter

The Honest Recruiter?

No matter how the market is performing in Recruitment, there is never any excuse for dishonesty.

Unfortunately, we have had alot of comments made to us from our job seekers about the level of dishonesty in the Recruitment market in recent times.

Most common complaints -

  • Advertising jobs that do not exist
  • Making promises to find a job seeker a job
  • Telling Client Companies you can fill their job in X amount of time
  • Telling job seekers you will send their CV to a Company and then not
  • Not informing job seekers you have sent their CV to a Company – this is illegal practice
  • Promising job seekers you will get back to them with feedback on their CV submission and then not
  • Promising job seekers you will keep in touch and then not

This is all misleading and unprofessional Recruitment Practice and does not abide with the NRF guidelines for Best Recruitment Practice.

This gives the Recruitment Industry in Ireland a bad name

Recruitment is a very responsible and worthwhile job.

As a Recruiter, you take job seekers future and career in your hand – this should be handled professionally and carefully.

In recent times, the decline in the Recruitment market has led to some dismal practice and short cuts and this needs to be stopped.

Our job seekers trust us that we will do our very best for them, this sort of practice leads to a lack of confidence and trust in us.

For further infomation on Best Practice in the Recruitment Industry in Ireland, go to -

www.nrf.ie

This is for Clients and Job Seekers and every Recruiter in the country should know it, practice it and live by it every day of their working life as a Recruiter.

Honest and Integrity as a Recruiter brings Awards

New Maternity Hospital

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Sandyford Maternity gets Go Ahead!

Sandyford Maternity gets Go Ahead!

A new Maternity Hospital planned for Sandyford has finally received approval for planning permission.

The new state of the art maternity hospital will be in Sandyford and will exist for women and children’s hospital needs.

It will hold 127 single patient rooms with the divisions being paediatric, maternity and gynaecolgy sections. It will hold 6 delivery rooms, 12 neonatal intensive care and special care beds.

Alongside these, the maternity hospital will comprise of 4 new theatres, 30 daycare beds 16 clinical suites and 8 urgent care beds.

“The women’s and children’s hospital at beacon would be happy to enter a service level agreement with the HSE to alleviate the present and future capacity issues” said the Beacon Medical Group spokesperson.

Initially privately run, the new Maternity Hospital at Sandyford will also open it’s doors for both public and private patients.