Organisation: Medicine Weekly

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

Tenders delay opening of clinic’s dialysis unit

DIALYSIS patients are being forced to travel long distances, often in the middle of the night, for treatment while a renal unit close to their homes is still not officially open to patients.

Thu, 23 Mar, 2006

Price hike may force patients to forgo insurance

Claire O’Sullivan

Wed, 06 Jul, 2005

Most back pain patients ‘do not require surgery’

OVER 90% of referrals of patients with chronic back pain referred to surgical clinics are a waste of time and could be treated by non-surgical means.

Thu, 04 Sep, 2003

Suicidal patients sent to A

GPs are being forced to send suicidal patients to A&E units because of problems arranging urgent psychiatric reviews due to a labour shortage, new research has found.

Thu, 17 Jul, 2003

Hospital used special payment to pay staff

BEAUMONT Hospital was forced to request a special payment from the Eastern Regional Health Authority in April this year to pay its staff, according to a report in Medicine Weekly.

Wed, 16 Jul, 2003