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Outpatient 'no shows' cost Cork University Hospital €2m
Written by Paul Mulholland Monday, 08 March 2010 12:32
Patients who did not turn up for outpatient appointments cost Cork University Hospital (CUH) approximately €2 million in 2009.
New reports on child deaths due
Written by Paul Mulholland Monday, 08 March 2010 12:29
The HSE has told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that two reports of children who died in its care will be published in the coming weeks.
Concerns over unlicensed drugs
Written by Lloyd Mudiwa Monday, 08 March 2010 12:28
The Department of Health and the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) are concerned by the high number of unauthorised medicinal products imported and supplied in Ireland, and are considering ways of curtailing them, it has emerged.
PAC seeks to publish consultant names
Written by Lloyd Mudiwa Monday, 08 March 2010 12:26
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will ask the Government if it can facilitate a way around the Data Protection Acts to enable the naming of consultants not adhering to their public/private practice ratios.