Patient advocates are unhappy with the latest report on the national cervical screening programme and want further reviews, but some medical experts say resources would be better used elsewhere
In our rush to condemn CervicalCheck, we’ve overlooked the thousands of women who have survived cervical cancer and the medical and psychological aftercare they need
The software, purchased from a Chinese company, was acquired at huge cost and may be impossible to use under GDPR law
Irish Cancer Society investigating whether patient data was shared with genetic data collection firm without consent
Paramedics and advanced paramedics are vital for our emergency services, yet paramedics are not defined as health care professionals or subject to regulation
Independent TD says delay is due to ‘a culture in Ireland that medics are always right and could never be wrong’
A former worker at the US firm‘s Shannon plant claims his Parkinson’s disease is linked to exposure to dangerous chemical
Brain tumour patients must be informed of right to withdraw data from study
CervicalCheck investigator claims patients not well served by legal system and calls for a lift on ban on complaints about clinical treatment
In April 2016, a media storm surrounded the proposed new National Maternity Hospital at Holles Street, with specific regard to its links to St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin. In this abridged extract from his new book, In the Shadow of the Eighth: My 40 Years Working for Women’s Health in Ireland, Peter Boylan offers his account of what went on behind the scenes
Dr Gabriel Scally led the scoping inquiry into the CervicalCheck scandal. Now, he writes, we must change how we deal with such failures in the health system in the interests of the patients affected, their families and society as a whole
LinkedIn account claimed that GMI had a data set of 12,000 ‘whole genome sequenced MS patients’
It is clear that the government is unwilling to engage in a meaningful way with the issues that plague our health service, creating a sub-standard environment for patients and medical workforce
The pharmaceutical industry wants future negotiations on drug pricing to include the extent to which drugs prevent costly hospital stays and details of other societal benefits they generate
The government’s response to the problems in emergency departments is well-rehearsed and utterly ineffective. The steps needed to ease the pressure are obvious. To do anything less is to turn overcrowding into official policy
Six months into one of the most demanding jobs in the public service, HSE director general Paul Reid believes he is making progress in restructuring the organisation