Recommendations from the An Bord Snip report include reducing health expenditure in the form of increasing the drugs payment scheme (DPS) co-payment by 25% and the introduction of a €5 co-payment for general medical services (GMS) patients have come under strong criticism in recent days. The introduction of co-payments or user charges in health care [...]
Data released today (some info here in China Daily) indicates that the Chinese Government have been successful in turning growth around. In the last 18 months, China has experienced a rapid decline in economic growth from 13% in 2007/Q4 to a growth rate of 6.1% in 2009/Q1. Economic growth in 2009/Q1 was well below the [...]
…. lecturer. The Irish Examiner recently ran a piece in its Weekend supplement (not available online) that featured the results of a survey carried out by a British bank on its 16-21 year old customers. They were asked what jobs would they most like to land when they got older. The results? 1. Musician/Band Member [...]
Yesterday’s Innovation magazine of the Irish Times carried an article on the Government’s Innovation Taskforce which included comments from myself and Karl Whelan of UCD. Karl writes some more about this topic here. My comments were based on a conversation with the writer of the article, Fiona Reddan, and a piece I had written. The [...]
The Irish Times today carries a piece I wrote about the setting of targets to measure innovation – which have implications for the entire science community and the economy.