Person: James Binchy

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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A&Es have ‘woefully inadequate’ staff levels

DOCTORS have claimed vital emergency department units & are being over- stretched because of “woefully inadequate” staff and low locum cover.

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Emergency doctors call for HSE to provide 24-hour social work cover

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A&E drive to dispel myth of heart disease as ‘male’ illness

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A&E departments still unfit year after critical report

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Harney makes stand on ‘inappropriate’ consultants’ fees in A&E

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Consultant shortage puts patients at risk

Criticism of VHI clinics does not make sense

DOCTOR James Binchy of the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine claims says that “treatment for serious conditions was being delayed as a result of patients having to be transferred from the (new VHI) clinics to hospital A&E departments” (Irish Examiner, June 23).

Thu, 29 Jun, 2006

VHI private clinics delay acute care for patients

AN emergency medicine consultant has expressed alarm that patients needing acute hospital care have had their treatment delayed as a result of presenting initially at the VHI’s new private casualty clinics in Dublin.

Fri, 23 Jun, 2006

Travellers see education as way to beat discrimination

THE few members of the Traveller community who make it to third-level college see education as the way to beat discrimination, a study of Travellers in higher education has found.

Fri, 22 Apr, 2005