Fine Gael Health Spokesperson, Dr Liam Twomey TD, has welcomed the views of Professor Des O’Neill, author of the report on deaths in Leas Cross, and said that the thrust of his recommendations were represented in Fine Gael policy. Dr Twomey added that Government had failed to protect elderly patients because of the absence of robust policy at its heart. “The horrors at Leas Cross happened, and could be happening in other nursing homes around the country, because of...
A great site here to see the number of people waiting for beds in Irish Hospitals. Found it on Damien Mulley’s Blog
Irish Independent 13/08/2006 DOCTORS at Ireland’s third-level colleges have admitted for the first time to treating HIV-positive students in their centres and have called on the Government to rethink its current sexual education policy, which is “failing and ineffective”. The news comes as a new sexual health survey conducted by Trinity College Dublin (TCD) of over 2,000 students obtained by the Sunday Independent showed that 51 per cent of students admitted to having a one-night stand and 58 per...
Dear Sir/Madam, I urge the Minister to commence Section 38 (1) of the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 as soon as possible. As a student of Public Health in UCC, I am aware of the cost and damage that smoking causes. If the date proposed, Monday, 2 October 2006, is the earliest I ask that it be implemented then. This is an important measure that will deter people from smoking and make it harder for people to get addicted...
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