President’s Message
Time to progress Tallaght recommendations “The Challenge…for all other acute hospitals in Ireland will be to drive, inject and embed strong patient-centred leadership in order to establish and sustain a strong culture of patient safety…” Richard Dooley, President, HMI The above quotation is from the HIQA statement which was issued to accompany the publication on May 8 last... Read More
HIQA report seen as patient safety charter
There has been a general welcome by senior health managers of the HIQA report into Tallaght Hospital, its highlighting of current patient safety issues nationally and its broader recommendations regarding patient safety and good governance in all hospitals. Maureen Browne reports. Senior health managers have welcomed the recommendations of the HIQA Report on Tallaght Hospital... Read More
Department appoints Secretary General
Health service managers will be heartened that Dr. Ambrose McLoughlin, the new Secretary General of the Department of Health is committed to the professional training and development of managers. Unusually for the Department of Health, Dr. McLoughlin has not come up through the ranks of the civil service, but he has an impressive pedigree. He is widely experienced having spent... Read More
The Minister will need the wisdom of Solomon
Health Minister, Dr. James Reilly is going to require the wisdom of Solomon to reach a decision on the location of the much needed Irish National Paediatric Hospital, writes Maureen Browne. Health Minister, Dr. James Reilly is going to require the wisdom of Solomon to reach a decision on the location of the much needed Irish National Paediatric Hospital. Dr. James Reilly, T.D. The... Read More
The Abramovich Style of Management
The new approach being mooted to performance improvement in hospitals, including, it is understood, a white traffic light which will indicate that a change of management may be about to take place, suggests a liking for, what he terms, the Abramovich style of management, writes Denis Doherty. Performance improvement has become a feature of the public and private sectors and, understandably,... Read More
Change programmes from a car boot
Health service manager, “Laurence Nightingale” offers some light-hearted advice to colleagues facing into another wave of reform within the public health services. At a conference I attended a couple of years ago a manager from the NHS in Wales remarked that most of the colleagues he encountered on a day-to-day basis were either recovering from the latest wave of health sector... Read More
A new National Rehabilitation Hospital
A new National Rehabilitation Hospital is to be built on the campus of the existing hospital in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. The development, which is a partnership between the HSE and the National Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation was announced by Health Minister, Dr. James Reilly and An Tanaiste, Eamon Gilmore. Derek Greene, CEO, National Rehabilitation Hospital It will see the... Read More
News from around your health services
New Department Director Special measures for hospitals failing to meet targets New Mater launched Temple Street Researcher Wins Neil Buist Award HSE National Director of Human Resources Adoption Authority Chief Executive Hospital takes top honours Mental Health Commissioners appointed Free GP Care No change in screening guidelines Winner of outstanding achievement award Award for... Read More
We must safeguard quality and quantum of service
Patients’ expectations were as high now as they had been during the Celtic Tiger period and managers needed to develop new and imaginative ways of managing resources to safeguard the quantum and quality of services, Ms. Breda Kavanagh, General Manager of South Tipperary General Hospital and Chair of HMI Southern Area Regional Committee, said when she opened the HMI South Forum... Read More
Managers should embrace Croke Park philosophy
Mr. Pat Harvey, Chair of the Public Service Health Service Implementation Body urged senior managers at the HMI South Forum in Cork to continue to embrace the philosophy of the Croke Park Agreement and to have continuing confidence around what it can achieve, writes Maureen Browne. “I would urge that management at every level embrace the Croke Park philosophy; it is vital that... Read More
