Sign up now for ease of access to The Medical Independent, Ireland’s most frequently published medical newspaper, delivering award-winning news and investigative reporting.
Established in 2010, along with its sister publication The Medical Independent, our stated aim is to investigate and analyse the major issues affecting healthcare and the medical profession in Ireland. The Medical Independent has won a number of awards for its investigative journalism, and its stories are frequently picked up by national digital, broadcast and print media. The Medical Independent is published by GreenCross Publishing.
Address: Top Floor, 111 Rathmines Road Lr, Dublin 6
Tel: 353 (01) 441 0024
GreenCross Publishing is owned by Graham Cooke.
You are reading 1 of 2 free-access articles allowed for 30 days
Staff burnout and patient access to endoscopy services were among the “key areas of concern” arising from the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on cancer services, the Director of the National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) told a HSE meeting in March. Prof Risteárd Ó Laoide made a presentation to the HSE safety and quality committee on the impact of Covid-19 on cancer services. In Ireland, the key areas of concern were patients’ access to endoscopy and cancer services’ access to data. The latter was “hindered by difficulties extracting it from various unintegrated sources and from the private sector”.
Prof Ó’Laoide emphasised that the risk of staff burnout in all areas including cancer services was significant, which the committee “was particularly concerned by”, stated meeting minutes. He also advised that access to diagnostics and IT infrastructure were “the two key areas” that must be addressed in cancer services and the wider health service.
Last month, the Medical Independent reported that clinicians at Cancer Trials Ireland had written to Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly urging him to take action to prepare for an unprecedented rise in cancer cases due to missed diagnoses and treatment gaps caused by Covid-19. On 2 June, IMO consultant committee Chair Dr Clive Kilgallen told the Oireachtas Health Committee that in the first three months of this year, 450 people per month were not seen within the recommended four weeks for an urgent colonoscopy
The risk of “violence or aggression” towards lone healthcare workers in community settings...
Measures are “urgently” required to improve the mental health and wellbeing of staff at...
The ICGP is examining alternative pathways for entry into general practice training as part of efforts...
In December, the HSE released part of an external review into the case of 'Brandon', a...
The evidence on doctor burnout “should scare us and concern us”, the Director of the RCSI...
A review of public health governance structures and addressing “longstanding” IT infrastructure...
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.