Department of Economics Research Symposium Summer 2010 Tuesday, June 29, 2010 Room G_05, Brookfield Health Sciences Building, UCC 9.00 – 11.00 Chair: Dr Niall O’Sullivan, Chair – Department of Economics Research Committee 9.00 – 9.10 Opening Remarks and Welcome Aileen Murphy, Andrew Briggs (University of Glasgow) and Elizabeth Fenwick (University of Glasgow) “Cost Effectiveness of [...]
Further revelations about the Irish health care system came to light last week with the unopened letters and un-reviewed x-rays in Tallaght Hospital. Such behaviour fuels views that the health system lacks efficacy and efficiency and intensifies calls for reform of the health system such as the Fair Care proposal by Fine Gael. At a [...]
Follow the link below to the slides I used in a presentation last week to the Cork Society of Chartered Accountants Ireland . It was their Annual Practice Day Conference for 2010. Practice Day Presentation 2010
The Health Economists´ Study Group is a UK organisation for people working in Health Economics. However, the group’s summer conference is being hosted here in University College Cork this summer by the Health Economics Group in the Department of Economics. This will be the first time the conference has been held in Ireland. The website for the conference [...]
The Irish Times reports a worried Minister for Education is going to investigate the possibility of grade inflation in Irish education. One wonders if the Minister is drawing on the same number of conversations (2) that he did when suggesting lecturers teach too few hours. The article states It is widely expected that the reviews [...]
As of today I predict that Exchequer tax revenues for 2010 will be less than €30 billion for the first time since 2002 (€29.3 billion). This was fine to fund 2002 expenditure but not for the 2010 expenditure which is nearly twice as big. The Department of Finance still believe the figure will be above €31 [...]
It was announced this week that the Outpatients Department at Cork University Hospital (CUH) are changing their appointment system for patients attending the Department. The new system comprises of a timed appointment system only. Not much different to the previous system I hear you say. Previously patients were given an appointment time, however upon presenting [...]
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In last week’s Budget Brian Linehan formally introduced the 50c per medical prescription for medical card holders that had been flagged over the previous few weeks. It seems we are taking at least one leaf out of the Singapore book. Well a bit of a leaf anyway. Singapore combines government subsidies with patient co-payment for [...]
The BBC report the results of the 2009 Halifax Pocket Money Survey. Halifax have been carrying out the survey since 1987 and have found that over that time pocket money has increased by more than four times the rate of inflation. Halifax are most interested in the savings behaviour shown but there are some other [...]