Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Friday, August 27th, 2010
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.
Tags: Docots, Doctors lists, Doctors Waiting Lists, hospital waiting lists, Hospital waiting times, Irish Hospital, Irish Hospital waiting lists, Medical Recruitement Agencies Dublin, Medical Recruitment Agencies Ireland, Medical Recruitment Agency, NTPF, Waiting lists
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
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.
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
A Fair Deal?
A Fair Deal it seems will now end up costing more than originally planned according to the latest Performance Report from the HSE.
In May, there was a trend showing a marked increase in Private Nursing Home payments.
A total of €16.6 million was spent on this scheme in May bringing the then year to date figure to almost €50 million.
If this rise is spending continues, the Report states, the costs will be higher than originally planned.
The application process for ‘A Fair Deal’ is now being closely watched to determine the possible trends for the remainder of 2010 according to the HSE.
The Board will be advised should the limit of funding be reached, according to the Report.
A large number of Nursing Home beds are now being left vacant as clients move towards the Private Sector with the launch of this ‘Fair Deal’
The outcome of this is that HSE Local Health Offices may have their budgets reduced as funding moves over to the ‘Fair Deal’
Tags: A Fair Deal, bedget effects of A Fair Deal, HSE, HSE Budgets, HSE News, Nursing Home beds, Nursing Homes
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
Light at the End of the Recessionary Tunnel!
It seems that jobs are on the increase and that there really is a map in place for new jobs coming up in the next 2-3 years in Ireland.
There have been various reports on the news about Ireland coming out of this recession in the next 3 years and slow as I am to admit it, it does seem like the investments keep coming!
From semiconductor producers investing in their Irish plants to US call center giants creating 400 jobs in the gaming industry, to a Galway company winning a space agency contract, one cannot argue with the facts in plain sight - jobs are on the increase!
Plus don’t forget all this talk of Nano-Technology - however, that may be just a little longer than 3 years!
So whether you gained all your experience in the semi-conductor world or you have worked in a call centre all your life, things really do like they are turning for the better.
Slowly but surely we will get there!
Tags: call centre jobs, increase in jobs, industry jobs, ireland jobs, irish investments, Irish Jobs, job news, Jobs, jobs in the semi conductor industry, Medical Jobs, nano-technology, nano-technology jobs, new jobs, new jobs for ireland, R&D, R&D Jobs, Recession, recruitment, research & development, research & development jobs, Science Jobs, semi conductor jobs
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
The next Victim of the Health Bill 2010 ?
Is St Lukes next on the chopping board for Mary Harney? It seems this is where she has her eye.
It has been reported that the cancer facility will be kept on as a terminally ill care centre as opposed to being “sold off”. Operations will be split between St James’ and Beamont Hospitals, with a portion of staff transferring to St James’ and Beaumont at the latter end of this year. The remainder of staff will be transferred by 2014.
Health Minister Mary Harney was bringing the Health Bill 2010 to the Oireachtas Committe on Health and Children, which allows for the detachment of the hospital boards and the transfer of assets. The plans for closure will continue with the reorganisation of cancer services in eight hospitals.
Radiotherapy will be transferred to Beaumont and St James’.
“The ethos of St Lukes is to keep it as a hospital and not have it sold”, said Harney. “Land near the city centre for public health use is hard to find and there is a growing demand for health services.”
Although this has been justified by the Health Minister, it has not been met with as much support as first imagined. It has caused immeasurable controversy and hurt to those who have survived cancer and who have been at the mercy of the fantastic staff at St Lukes.
Chairperson of “Save St Luke’s Hospital” campaign and cancer survivor Joe Guilfoyle says ” St Lukes is one of the few success stories of our public health system”.
Guilfoyle goes on to add “Its is a hospital that patients like me are very happy to travel to. It is unacceptable that the minister is attempting to close it”.
I myself look forward to hearing more on what could potentially be damaging news to those who St Lukes have been paramount to their recovery.
Has the Health Minister gone too far this time or is this all part of a grand scheme of events to help the Irish public health system?
We’ll see.
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
Other people's opinions
Other people’s opinions can be dangerous - always check it out before making a decision based on them.
We have had 2 recent episodes where our job seekers had been told by other people negative things about the Company they were applying to for a job and nearly pulled out as a result.
This is where word of mouth can be dangerous.
Check out the facts yourself first before making such a critical decision regarding your career and life balance.
Both cases were unfounded and it transpired that these were ex Medical Sales Reps who had left both Companies on a bad note and were both spreading negative feedback about these Companies down the Medical Sales Grapevine.
If you are a job seeker, you need to be very thorough in your methods and your research.
It is okay to hear negative things about the Company you are considering, but check it out - try to get a balanced non biaised opinion.
We are very thorough as Recruitment Consultants within the Medical Industry and will know whether rumours or word of mouth is true or not as we know our Client Companies very well and can therefore advise.
However, it is still imperative you seek out both sides of story and DO NOT let one person’s opinion dictate your career path.
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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Boots is at the top in the UK! It has emerged that Boots has pipped Marks & Spencer at the post as the most “reputable company”.
Following a public survey of 140 UK companies reputations, participants were asked to rate companies on their levels of trust, admiration and esteem.
And Boots came out top!
The pharmaceutical industry is reported to be the fifth most reputable and respected industry in the UK while manufacturing, consumer product, retail and services preceeded.
Tags: boots ireland, pharmacies, Pharmacists, Pharmacy jobs, top company surveys
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Nurses at Work!
Everyday at Jackie Brown Medical we get different jobs in ranging from Nurses to Medical Sales Rep to Medical Device Engineering.
Today’s hot job is in Nursing - Disability Nursing anyone?
We are looking for Senior Staff Nurses for a Care Centre in the Co. Galway region.
Nurses must have experience in Disabilities, Care of the Elderly and some Neurology would be great.
This is a state of the art complex in the heart of the Galway community.
Take a look on the jobs page for some further information, and if that has tweaked your interest then send us your up to date CV and we will take it from there!
Enjoy the sunshine…..while it lasts!
Tags: disability nurse, disability nurse jobs galway, galway jobs, galway nurse jobs, jobs for Nurses, Medical Jobs, medical jobs galway, medical sales, Medical Sales Jobs, medical sales jobs galway, nurse job galway, staff nurse, staff nurse galway
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