Organisation: Irish Health Services Accreditation Board

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Inform patients about MRSA and improve hygiene, says lobby group

PATIENTS must be told about the risk of acquiring the hospital super bug MRSA before consenting to surgery, a patients’ lobby group told a national conference on drug resistant infections yesterday.

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New hygiene scheme to force hospitals to clean up

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Hospitals to face unannounced hygiene checks

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One million face infection if bird flu outbreak hits Ireland

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Elderly left waiting despite Government promises

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Harney welcomes hospital’s ‘ambitious and impressive’ funding plan

Rotunda to get €120m health suite

A new €120m health suite is to be built at the Rotunda hospital in central Dublin, it emerged today.

Thu, 12 Jan, 2006

Survey reveals hospitals’ planning failures

HOSPITALS are failing to deal with violent patients, informed consent and disaster planning, a new report has found.

Tue, 13 Sep, 2005

New hygiene standards for hospitals by year end

The body that oversees the quality of the Irish health service has said it hopes to have new national hygiene standards in place by the end of this year.

Mon, 12 Sep, 2005

Survey exposes hospital crisis plans

A SURVEY of 12 acute hospitals found all had haphazard plans which left staff unclear about what to do in the event of an internal disaster such as fire or flooding.

Thu, 30 Jun, 2005